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pablochacon via Privacy

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pablochacon
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Against Decay, We Build: DeDe (Decentralized Delivery) Protocol

This is DeDe (Decentralized Delivery) Protocol:

Not a token, not speculation.
It’s infrastructure, deployed on Ethereum mainnet.

We’re watching the same pattern everywhere:
Postal systems collapsing.
Parcels lost, broken, stolen or seized.
Increased surveillance, ID requirements, more decay.
Less reliability, less privacy, less dignity.

The institutions that were supposed to protect our right to communication are failing, even though privacy of correspondence is guaranteed under UN Article 12 and ICCPR Article 17.

So instead of being stuck in surveillance and Inefficiency-As-A-Service, we have to build parallel systems immune to centralized control.
Systems by us for us, in the spirit of the Fediverse:

community-powered

decentralized

permissionless

protocol, not platform

no corporations

no bosses

no surveillance

no extraction

DeDe (Decentralized Delivery) is not a token, not a scam, not a VC product, not a walled garden.
It’s a rail, an open delivery settlement layer anyone can build on.

What it does:

Every parcel is an NFT with a lifecycle

Escrow is automatic, trustless, and transparent

Anyone can create an NFT-Parcel

Anyone can carry parcels while they’re already on the move

No fleets, no gig exploitation, no “shadow wages”

Zero extra CO₂, use the movement people already make

Protocol fee is immutable (0.5%), so nobody can rug / extract

Privacy is natively built in.

Fully MIT-licensed & open-source

It’s not a startup.
It’s not a marketplace.
It’s not a company.

It’s the peoples infrastructure for physical logistics.

Because if we want a free world, we can’t outsource critical communication infrastructure to decaying governments, surveillance corps, or gig economy parasites.

If you want to understand the philosophy behind it, here’s the full manifesto + artwork:

Medium:
medium.com/@ekarlsson66/dede-t…

If you want to poke around the contracts:

DeDe Protocol GitHub (MIT):
github.com/pablo-chacon/dede-p…

DeDe Quik-Start Templates GitHub (MIT):
github.com/pablo-chacon/dede-t…

No pressure to “like crypto.”
DeDe is just a tool.
Use it, fork it, ignore it. All up to you.
More decentralized civilizational fundamentals, means less dependency of collapsing control systems.
We must have working alternatives when the centralized systems break down.

Against decay, we build.
That’s the spirit of the fediverse.
That’s the spirit of DeDe.

GitHub - pablo-chacon/dede-protocol: DeDe Protocol, Neutral, Trustless Settlement Rails for P2P Crowdshipping

DeDe Protocol, Neutral, Trustless Settlement Rails for P2P Crowdshipping - pablo-chacon/dede-protocol

^GitHub

#privacy

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irmadlad

in reply to pablochacon • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Not to be hypercritical, I'm not a published dev so take this in that light. I always find it sketch to happen upon a GitHub repo that has no description in the right column. The software may be tight, but in the back of my head I'm wondering, why didn't they take 5 minutes and provide a description?

About
No description, website, or topics provided.

On the other hand, it's always comforting that it is being actively maintained:

7b8fc3b · 42 minutes ago

Just random thoughts from the old head.

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pablochacon

in reply to irmadlad • 2 settimane fa • •

Actually I never thought about it. That's a good idea. Thanks. =)
But all the data about the project needed is in:
1. README.md
2. WHITEPAPER.md
3. DeDe-FAQ.md

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lattrommi

in reply to pablochacon • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

If it is deployed on Etherium mainnet, that implies there's a monetary/crypto based cost right?

From the Medium article:

DeDe allows:

Commuters
Cyclists
Students
Gig workers
Travel enthusiasts

…to earn money by delivering parcels along the path they were already taking.

...

It simply turns existing human movement into an economic engine.

Those statements sound like a person is actually transporting stuff physically. I'm not sure I see the connection. I tried reading the github too but it got more technical than I can understand.

Is this a courier service for physical packages that pays the couriers with crypto by doing shipments paid with crypto? How would that be trustworthy? A courier could simply open the package at the risk of non-payment for potentially stealing valuables. Or is this digital packages only? But if that's the case, what would physical activity be needed for? What's to stop this from turning into that Black Mirror episode where people are cycling in place constantly, to pay their electric bills?

Just trying to wrap my head around this and I think I'm missing something.

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pablochacon

in reply to lattrommi • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Here is a clearer explanation. DeDe is not a courier service and not a gig app. It is only infrastructure, a smart contract protocol.

DeDe is not an app, not a marketplace and not a company. It is a tiny delivery settlement rail that sits on Ethereum, similar to how Bitcoin sits under money transfers and Matrix sits under messaging. Those systems do not provide apps or account systems, they provide rails. DeDe works the same way but for physical delivery.

This is what the protocol actually does. Anyone can register a parcel on chain as an NFT. The sender deposits the parcel value into escrow, because the escrow amount represents the value of the item/parcel/delivery. Anyone who wants to can pick up a parcel and deliver it. It is completely voluntary and there are no assignments, no scheduling and no forced routes. The smart contract holds the escrow until both sides confirm that the parcel arrived. When they agree, the contract releases the payment to the carrier and takes a 0.5 percent transaction fee from the escrow. It is a transaction fee, NOT a parcel fee. The remaining 99.5 percent goes to the carrier.

If someone builds an app or a marketplace on top of DeDe and decides to charge an additional service fee, that fee belongs to that external service. It is outside the protocol, outside the smart contract and outside DeDe entirely. For example, if a carrier receives 95 percent of the parcel value, DeDe still only took 0.5 percent as the transaction fee, while the other 4.5 percent would be the fee of that particular app or marketplace. DeDe does not define or control those business models.

There is no app, no login system, no surveillance layer, no tracking and no central operator baked into DeDe. Those things, if anyone wants them, are built by others. A future marketplace built on top of DeDe becomes a kind of free for all UPS or DHL where senders and carriers meet, but all settlement still flows through the trustless contract. That part is the only responsibility of DeDe.

Carriers can choose any parcel they want. If a parcel matches their daily route, it is efficient and reduces the number of trucks in cities, but they can also deliver completely unrelated parcels if that is what they prefer. with what kind of transport they prefer. Everything is voluntary.

The trust comes from the smart contract. It does not track or identify anyone. It simply releases money when both sides confirm delivery. That is the entire mechanism, a neutral settlement layer for physical logistics. Everything above that, including apps, marketplaces and business logic, belongs to the people who build on top of it.

If anything is unclear I can explain more.

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lattrommi

in reply to pablochacon • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Fedex and UPS deliver almost anywhere, and can do insured packages. Here in the U.S. there's also the postal service, which also can deliver across a wide geography, beyond that of the U.S. borders. These cost a trivial amount of money and if one has a post office near them, they can pay with cash and avoid revealing their identity.

It sounds like you want people to use a form of cryptocurrency to pay a stranger, whichever stranger comes first, to deliver a physical package, then paying the deliverer once the package is accepted, using that same cryptocurrency.

Even if the protocol doesn't track or identify anyone, if the ledger is available for anyone to see or even if it were limited to package deliverers, a tracking mechanism would be trivial to create.

This does not guarantee any level of security for the package, only the payment, which is only theoretically secure because I haven't taken the time to check.

If it somehow took off as a solution people needed, once a package is put on the chain, there could potentially a mad free-for-all of deliverers, all fighting tooth and nail to get that package.

The entire trip delivering would also be fraught with dangers potentially, as deliverers who weren't fast enough might simply rob or kill the winning deliverer, take the package, then deliver it themselves. If they wanted to...

If the payment for a package is high enough, one might wonder just what was so important to warrant such a payment. Drugs? Guns? Biological weapons? Black market organs for transplant? Actual cash money?

Don't forget that computational costs electricity, which costs the environment until the world gets off of fossil fuels. Potential users would have to ask themselves if the package delivery is more important than climate change.

This sounds like a way to try and make crypto money, for doing absolutely nothing, by inserting crypto into a market that doesn't need it, to do a job already handled just fine by companies that already have the infrastructure in place, with no real problem being solved that needs solved.

What problem does this solve? How does this make package delivering any better?

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pablochacon

in reply to lattrommi • 2 settimane fa • •

Thanks for the thoughtful critique. Some clarification to help:

DeDe isn’t trying to replace FedEx/UPS/USPS.

DeDe is not a platform or an app.
It’s a protocol, closer to TCP/IP than Uber.

It handles one function only:

escrow -> pickup -> dropoff -> finalize

Everything else (matching, identity, trust, messaging, routing) is off-chain, by design.
That separation is what preserves privacy and prevents metadata leakage.

What problem DeDe actually solves

Not postal logistics, those require fleets, warehouses, and fixed infrastructure.

DeDe addresses the centralized crowdshipping model used by Uber/Doordash/Amazon Flex:

• zero privacy
• centralized control
• data extraction and surveillance
• wage manipulation
• platform lock-in
• mandatory identity
• opaque matching

DeDe gives communities the same underlying mechanics of crowdshipping
without a corporation in the middle collecting or exploiting sender/carrier/destination data.

No tracking, no identity, no metadata

Parcel NFTs only encode:

• parcel ID
• escrow amount
• lifecycle state

No names, addresses, routes, timestamps, or identities.
All sensitive information stays off-chain.

DeDe doesn’t broadcast parcels, seek couriers, or coordinate delivery.
It only settles funds trustlessly.

No token, no speculation

• no governance token
• no staking token
• no inflation
• no “earn crypto for nothing”
• no VC angle

Ethereum is used strictly as a neutral, permissionless escrow layer.

In short

DeDe is a tiny, open, neutral settlement rail for P2P delivery,
just infrastructure communities can use or ignore as they like.

Regarding environmental footprint:

Blockchain environmental impact depends on how electricity is produced, not on the existence of computation itself.
Electricity demand has been rising for decades, long before blockchains or AI, and will continue to do so.

If critical economic infrastructure depended on abundant, cheap green power,
it would create a strong incentive for energy producers to scale sustainable sources faster.
The largest investors in green energy today are still heavily tied to fossil fuels,
so shifting economic incentives can help accelerate the transition.

ZkhqrD5o via Linux

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ZkhqrD5o
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Have Nvidia drivers on Linux gotten worse over later generations?

I just saw the GamersNexus benchmarks and I wondered to myself, why do they have so many problems with Nvidia on Bazite? I've used PopOS with my RTX 30 graphics card and I've essentially had performance parity with Windows.

Do you guys think they misconfigured something in the background or do you think that the driver has just gotten worse? What are your experiences?

#linux

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IcePee

in reply to ZkhqrD5o • 2 settimane fa • •

I think the biggest issue they had was with consistency of frame rate.
Maybe the graphic drivers have matured more for the RTX 30 than the later versions.
Are you using the proprietary drivers, or the open source ones?

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ZkhqrD5o

in reply to IcePee • 2 settimane fa • •

I have always used what PopOS bundles. It used to be the proprietary driver, but ever since a certain driver version, they have switched to the Nvidia-made FOSS driver. Because nvidia stopped developing any sort of proprietary components in the driver and just made the FOSS driver instead, which became the "official" Nvidia driver in May 2025 i think.

Edit: Correction, only the kernel modules are all FOSS, while the userspace modules such as CUDA for example are still proprietary.

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MyNameIsRichard

in reply to ZkhqrD5o • 2 settimane fa • •

No, but then I have quite an old graphics card. Even for my card, the open source drivers are recommended.

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custard_swollower

in reply to ZkhqrD5o • 2 settimane fa • •

It’s a bazzite issue. Many people share that the drivers are pretty reliable on other distros.

From experience, they got pretty good over last 2-3 years.

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artyom

in reply to custard_swollower • 2 settimane fa • •

Does Bazzite make their own Linux drivers?

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Eggymatrix

in reply to artyom • 2 settimane fa • •

No, bazzite does some weird stuff that does not interact well with the linux nvidia drivers

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artyom

in reply to ZkhqrD5o • 2 settimane fa • •

I think most likely the performance isn't as similar on your system as you think it is.

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CronyAkatsuki

in reply to ZkhqrD5o • 2 settimane fa • •

I have a 5060ti 16gb version and don't experience any issues with frame pacing and stuff like that on nixos, while when I tried bazzite I was experiencing some issues with the gpu.

It's most likely a bazzite specific issue, especially if you use something like the steamos interface.

For example my monitor is a 160hz monitor that support's gsync, but if I enable global gsync in any wayland compositor the bottom part of my screen is cut off and experience weird vissual bugs, but if I make them only enable gsync on my steam games when they are fullscreen I don't experience that issue. The steamos session inside of bazzite doesn't have that feature, so when it enables gsync I experience that same issue of cut off part of the screen with weird visual issues.

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Eggymatrix

in reply to ZkhqrD5o • 2 settimane fa • •

All this is ironic, bazzite is often chosen for gaming, but as all these niche distros they have problems in stability which in this case reflects on exactly their core feature: gaming performance.

Stands yet again in demonstrating that gamers don't actually care about performance, just in claiming that they have a top spec pc, if that thing does not perform like it should but just gives a workable experience it is actually fine

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Dran

in reply to Eggymatrix • 2 settimane fa • •

I just went to repurpose some old hardware for my nephew (4790k + 32gb ddr3 + rtx 3050) which I thought would make a very passable bazzite box. I put 2 drives in the test rig, one with bazzite Nvidia + kde and one with win11 running with the rufus tpm bypass hacks.

CS2 ran at ~40fps in bazzite with no sound once you got in game, win11 ran at ~100

Helldivers2 ran at ~50fps in bazzite with constant frame drops even after letting it precompile shaders. On windows it was a very playable 70fps.

I mainline Linux myself and I wanted bazzite to be the set-and-forget answer but it really wasn't. I can't in good faith hand that build over to an 12 year old with bazzite and that was super disappointing.

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typhoon

in reply to Dran • 2 settimane fa • •

Problem is not Bazzite or Linux, problem is Nvidia. If we need to be honest, we should avoid Nvidia.

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FauxLiving

in reply to typhoon • 2 settimane fa • •

None of the problems that they're describing are caused by using an Nvidia card.

The default proton is bad, using GE-Proton will often improve things.

CS2 getting 40fps and no sound. A quick trip over to protondb.com/app/730 will show that this is a problem with CS2 as it happens on every graphics card. Setting SDL_AUDIO_DRIVER=pipewire resolves the issue for a lot of people.

Helldivers 2 low FPS: Protondb has people with both graphics cards reporting the low fps issues. Setting a framerate cap will reduce FPS variance, using GE-Proton10 fixes HDR issues. In my experience disabling vsync improved performance significantly, this is true of a lot of games if you're using adaptive sync.

I see this all the time in the Linux communities. If someone is having an issue with a game and they use an Nvidia card then community responses are often to do the blame Nvidia meme rather than troubleshoot the issue.

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Dran

in reply to FauxLiving • 2 settimane fa • •

Appreciate the recommended fixes. I did find similar and was able to work through some of the issues with CS2 but I did that on instinct, and it wasn't until I was halfway through troubleshooting game 2 of 2 attempted that I realized it wasn't where I needed it to be for a remote support hand-me-down.

I did briefly entertain the idea of setting up rustdesk on it but the atomic nature + Wayland made unattended (read: "help I broke it and I can't log in") not really viable. By the time I got to "hrm, I could probably set up a reverse ssh tunnel into my homelab for persistent support?" I decided windows was probably the play here.

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Dran

in reply to typhoon • 2 settimane fa • •

Like the other guy said I think this is a bazzite-induced problem. I have other Linux systems at home. My daily driver and my wife's daily driver are both highly custom Ubuntu server derivatives, we both have Nvidia GPUs (3050, 5070), and neither of us have similar issues.

The reason I wanted to try bazzite was that I didn't want to remotely support something super custom.

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typhoon

in reply to Dran • 2 settimane fa • •

Do you think you would have those issues that you are reporting if you were using AMD or Intel GPUs?

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Dran

in reply to typhoon • 2 settimane fa • •

I suspect the difference in experiences is more due to x11/pulse(my custom systems) vs Wayland/pipewire(bazzite) than it is any particular GPU vendor or driver branch. Which I guess is a roundabout way of saying

Maybe? Probably?

Judging by the protondb entry on CS2 I strongly suspect I would have at least the audio issue regardless of gpu.

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stuner

in reply to ZkhqrD5o • 2 settimane fa • •

I have 3080 and I've seen significant performance issues too (e.g. in Cyberpunk 2077, KCD2). I think it depends a lot on the games you play. Apparently DX12 (via vkd3d) doesn't perform well on Nvidia cards.

My next GPU will probably not be an Nvidia card.

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Matty_r

in reply to stuner • 2 settimane fa • •

When I upgraded my GPU last I tried for the first time since ATI was a thing to leave nvidia and go AMD. I tried to get a 6900XT but just had endless issues with drivers, which I was surprised about because if you believe a majority of Linux users it should have been flawless - it was not. I had endless issues with drivers and games running badly. I caved and returned it for a 3070ti - trust me I tried a lot of things.

Anyway, I've since tried AMD again and upgraded to a 9070XT and the transition this time has been absolutely flawless, even keeping the same install (CachyOS has a guide to swap from nvidia to AMD).

This is all to say, don't believe the hype around AMD but at least give it a try and don't feel too bad if it doesn't work out for you. Ultimately both nvidia and AMD have been improving significantly over the years

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utopiah

in reply to ZkhqrD5o • 2 settimane fa • •

No idea, I've been playing "normal" games and VR games with my NVIDIA card for years now on Debian and... it just works. It just keeps on working. Maybe people are hardcore tinkerers that mess with specific options but me, I just play and I'm happy with it.

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typhoon

in reply to utopiah • 2 settimane fa • •

I feel that "works" is a very broad term. It can work but doesn't mean that it will perform even or better in a good amount of games compared to Nvidia on Windows or AMD in Linux or Windows. Issues depends on specific games that one plays, one may be playing games that aren't prone for those issues reported.

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utopiah

in reply to typhoon • 2 settimane fa • •

Sure, but FWIW I play from AAA to indies and it "works" as in no bug, no noticeable visual glitch.

I don't benchmark from my driver version to the previous one on Windows or Linux or a price point equivalent with AMD hardware, I just play. I don't think anybody gain much from checking performance benchmarks before playing a game, at least I can say for sure to me that's not part of the fun.

I would notice if something was blatantly wrong e.g 50% performance hit, but I wouldn't if it's 5% hit. I don't really care for it as it doesn't affect my gameplay. Like I said, it's from a casual player, not a pro player nor a game tinkerer.

Working "better" on Windows means nothing to me. Either I can play and I'm happy or I can't (which never happened) then I'd be disappointed and potentially check why.

PS: I'm also a developer of XR content so I'm relatively confident I'd spot any significant problem.

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NapKat

in reply to ZkhqrD5o • 2 settimane fa • •

The problem for me is that its so damn back and forth. One driver will be perfectly fine, and then the next will introduce some random new issue. Rn 580 has caused elite dangerous to crash with some out of memory error, and VR is completely broken. Im really considering switching from Nobara because I want a distro that has a built in tool to easily downgrade nvidia drivers.

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jazzkoalapaws

in reply to ZkhqrD5o • 2 settimane fa • •

I haven't noticed.

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Zimno

in reply to ZkhqrD5o • 2 settimane fa • •

In the past (2021-2022) I remember that Nvidia drivers were really pain in the ass and installing them always ended for me with black screen. For right now everything is working for me in debian-based distributions and arch-linux.
Yesterday I was looking for new linux distros, I wanted to try Fedora and OpenSuse but drivers didn't work there at all. In Fedora this Nouveau driver was okay but in OpenSuse even open-source driver wasn't working.

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billwashere

in reply to ZkhqrD5o • 2 settimane fa • •

Well being it’s all vibe coded now yep that tracks.

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utopiah

in reply to billwashere • 2 settimane fa • •

Source please

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billwashere

in reply to utopiah • 2 settimane fa • •

Just take a look at their workflow and you tell me. NVIDIA uses an AI-powered code editor called Cursor. It is a fork of VS Code that integrates Large Language Models (LLMs) directly into the programming environment.

Here a quote from this article:

A high-profile endorsement from NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang in late 2025 underscored Cursor’s rapid ascent – calling Cursor his “favorite enterprise AI service” and noting that 100% of NVIDIA’s engineers now use AI assistance with a remarkable boost in productivity.

digitalstrategy-ai.com/2025/11…

In late 2024 and early 2025, CEO Jensen Huang explicitly stated that "every single software engineer at NVIDIA uses Cursor."

dataconomy.com/2025/10/15/jens…

And then there is this article:

fortune.com/2025/11/25/nvidia-…

So it’s kinda obvious they use a lot of AI in their code. Now there is no direct proof they use it in their drivers but they obviously do given the CEO’s stance.

‘Are you insane?’: Billionaire CEO Jensen Huang blasts Nvidia managers who are ‘telling their people to use less AI’

Huang said Nvidia employees should be using AI everywhere they can, "because we have the power to do so."

^{Dave Smith (Fortune)}

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utopiah

in reply to billwashere • 2 settimane fa • •

No doubt NVIDIA is peddling AI as they are financially depending on it now.

Now from claiming something is powerful and even used to actually shipping code on something low level and benchmarkable like (GPU) drivers I have doubt. I imagine they can say they use AI there to rephrase comment and it would "technically correct" but beyond that I'm still skeptical.

Regarding chip design, AI has been used for decades ... if you consider routing to be AI. It's not generative in the modern sense, it's not using LLM, but it's automated a process.

To me it's the typical Harvard Business School playbook. C-suite repeat keywords they read in their peer most popular magazine, they aggregate in a document they call "strategy" they lower down the chain of commands people "execute" that because they must, thanks to KPIs.

I'd love to hear it from an actual engineer working on drivers but I imagine it'd be hard to get a honest opinion with NDAs and all.

Thanks for providing all the sources!

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SpaceScotsman

in reply to ZkhqrD5o • 2 settimane fa • •

The drivers run OK, but because they were not built for my distribution with the right flag, when I sleep and resume my system, I need to log out and back in to the desktop or else it bugs out.

Is this the drivers fault for not having that be a default flag? The maintainers fault for not using the correct flags? Waylands fault for not interfacing with the driver right on resume? My fault for having the audacity to want to use the sleep function?

I have no clue, but it doesn't happen with the open source nouevau drivers, so I'm inclined to place a fair bit of the blame with nvidia.

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FauxLiving

in reply to SpaceScotsman • 2 settimane fa • •

If it's the same bug as what I'm seeing, I just wrote a script that changes the display settings and sets them back then bound it to a hotkey.

Any monitor that stays blank after waking up is fixed if you adjust the display settings (tricky to do with blank monitors, hence the script).

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IngeniousRocks (They/She)

in reply to ZkhqrD5o • 2 settimane fa • •

The only thing I know for sure in regards to why nvidia kinda blows on linux is that system RAM sharing doesn't really work the way it does on windows or with AMD cards on linux. This means that particularly VRAM intense workloads will suffer. Unreal 5 games in particular suffer because of this.

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Gary Ghost

in reply to IngeniousRocks (They/She) • 2 settimane fa • •

I just bought Avowed. Splitegate 2 has been running great on my 3060 but splitegate 2 is also very plain looking. I hope Avowed runs well too

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Gary Ghost

in reply to IngeniousRocks (They/She) • 2 settimane fa • •

This might explain why Manjaro waits so long in between updates for Nvidia. A really old driver didn't have as many problems until 580.82.90.

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SmoochyPit

in reply to ZkhqrD5o • 2 settimane fa • •

I’m on Arch, with Hyprland as my Window Manager. I use an RTX 3070.

For Wayland specifically, the driver was next to unusable for a while. I jumped ship from Windows in Sept. 2023. Beginning with driver 560 iirc, it got a lot better, plus their engineers pushed a lot of changes across the Wayland ecosystem to implement explicit sync support (a net positive, but before this, Nvidia was too stubborn to implement implicit sync, so bad screen tearing was unavoidable). Also there’s been a slow migration to using the GSP processor on newer cards. They claim it can improve performance, which may be true, but I also recently learned it helps them keep some more parts of their code closed-source, which is likely why it’s required to use the open source kernel modules.

At this point, though, it does feel very smooth and I can play games like The Finals at competitive framerates!

But relative to my performance under Windows, it’s still worse, mainly in average framerate. Like others have said, DX12 games seem to be hit hardest. I sometimes have to run lower settings to compensate. Also, if my VRAM gets filled, Xwayland apps all break, so I have to be very careful with higher quality texture quality especially.

Anyways, to answer your question, I think an average gamer doesn’t notice the degraded performance, without benchmarking or comparing framerates back to back— it still runs pretty smooth and framerates are still pretty high. If they aren’t happy with it, they’ll drop quality settings or resolution, just like they’d do under Windows.

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Eyck_of_denesle

in reply to ZkhqrD5o • 2 settimane fa • •

I could barely launch games on Wayland 2 years ago. I have been gaming on Wayland now, no problems. So if anything, it has massively improved.

geneva_convenience via Palestine

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geneva_convenience
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Israeli forces carry out attacks in Gaza, breaching ceasefire

Israeli forces carried out attacks across multiple areas in the Gaza Strip on Sunday in breach of the ceasefire agreement, according to Wafa news agency.

Israeli troops conducted intense shelling and aerial attacks from helicopters east of al-Bureij refugee camp, in central Gaza. Israeli warplanes also carried out six air strikes east of Rafah, in southern Gaza.

In Khan Younis, Israeli forces shelled a house in the town of Bani Suheila. There were no immediate reports of casualties in any of the attacks.

Israeli forces carry out attacks in Gaza, breaching ceasefire

^{Middle East Eye}

#Palestine

Camille_Jamal via Asklemmy

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Camille_Jamal
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I'm new to lemmy, came from reddit. What's the lemmy etiquette like? How different is it from reddiqutte?

I'm new as in this is my first day using lemmy. I don't know anything about lemmy etiquette and don't want to do anything bad

thanks and have an amazing day! also plz be kind 😁

#asklemmy

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Gerudo

in reply to geneva_convenience • 2 settimane fa • •

Yes, but a new user needs to know the instance they join has pros and cons. Like another user stated, they joined .ml after lemm.ee closed and didn't know why several communities they had subscribed to weren't showing up.

Let's be real for a second, lemmygrad, .ml and. hexbear are well known for blocking and being blocked on Lemmy. Users should know Lemmy isnt like reddit where each user can potentially see 100% of content, it's dependent on your instance.

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geneva_convenience

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Lemmygrad an Hexbear sure. Nobody will recommend those as servers to start off.

.ml however is a pretty general server which is federated very broadly. It's not a bad place to start off.

jankforlife via World News

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jankforlife
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Ukrainian terror plot to bomb gas pipeline outside Moscow foiled – FSB

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has thwarted a Ukrainian-sponsored terror plot to bomb a major gas pipeline in Moscow Region

^RT

#Worldnews

like this

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Hyper_red [she/her, she/her]

in reply to jankforlife • 2 settimane fa • •

When Russia kills civilians >🙁

When Le epic wholesome Ukraine does it 😀

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Saapas

in reply to Hyper_red [she/her, she/her] • 2 settimane fa • •

Russia could stop this all by stopping the invasion tbh.

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radiouser

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Don't engage with trolls or bad faith arguments.

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Cowbee [he/they]

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These aren't trolls or bad-faith arguments, this is the standard Marxist position. Labelling your opponent as a "troll" or "bad-faith" is just a way to terminate any discussion before it happens.

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radiouser

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 settimane fa • •

Ah, I respectfully disagree with you.

A serious position deserves a serious presentation. If you (or anyone) want to discuss media bias or comparative morality in war, start that discussion. The original comment didn't come close.

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Cowbee [he/they]

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The original was a joke, meant to highlight double standards at play. Not trolling or being bad-faith.

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radiouser

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Thanks for explaining that to me.

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Cowbee [he/they]

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No problem!

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cfgaussian

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The Kiev regime could stop all this by accepting Russia's demands.

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Saapas

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Russia stops the invasion, nothing changes for Russia. Ukraine surrenders, no more Ukraine.

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RiverRock

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Where are people getting this Lord of the Rings-ass idea? Russia doesn't want to absorb Ukraine because

A) They do not want to be responsible for tamping down decades of Banderite insurgencies, and

B) Doing so would mean that they now share a vulnerable border with a NATO member which is, and I cannot stress this enough, most of the reason they went into Ukraine in the first place.

What they actually want is a buffer zone in the form of a demilitarized Ukraine. The Donbas Republics have voted to join the Russian Federation, so they're not going back to Ukranian control, but western Ukraine is far more strategically beneficial to them as a rump state.

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Saapas

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"Nah they don't want to take over, they just want to make it into a weak country they totally control"

Lmao that's great I wonder why Ukraine doesn't go for that

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RiverRock

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Totally control

Did you read anything I said? They do not want to be responsible for dealing with the shambles that Ukraine has become. It benefits them far more to let that be Europe's burden

It doesn't matter what the Ukranian government wants or doesnt want, they've lost the war. If you don't like it, take it up with the nazis in charge or the Americans who put them there in the 2014 Maidan coup and told them they could win. The Ukranian people overwhelmingly want peace. There were so many offramps before this point, and the US puppet government refused all of them, so now here we are learning an object lesson in why diplomacy is preferable to belligerence.

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Saapas

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Tsundere Russia, it's not like it even wants to control Ukraine, baka.

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RiverRock

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You have an eleven year old's idea of how and why wars happen, and a fourteen year old's habit of retreating to moody sarcasm when you realize you're out of your depth in an argument.

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Saapas

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Don't be upset, it was just a joke

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RiverRock

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If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

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Saapas

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I mean at some point it makes sense to recognize that the conversation isn't going anywhere

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RiverRock

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Yes, it stopped going anywhere the moment you decided to stop it. I brought facts, you brought snide cope and deflection disguised as jokes🤷‍♂️

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Saapas

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I can't say I agree about the factuality of your statements tbh.

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RiverRock

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Of course you don't, you live in unreality

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Saapas

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That sounds like some fantast movie place

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cfgaussian

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If the war keeps going there will be no more Ukraine. Peace now on Russia's terms is the only way to preserve it.

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Saapas

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If the war keeps going there will be no more Ukraine

Fucking grim what Russia is doing. It's like Israel to Palestine.

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RiverRock

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Ukraine and Israel are allies

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Saapas

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I'm not sure you got the comparison...

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RiverRock

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I did it's just a nonsensical comparison that borders on genocide denial

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Saapas

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If the war keeps going there will be no more Palestine. Peace now on Israel's terms is the only way to preserve it.

I've definitely heard people say that

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RiverRock

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You have not.

"Israel" has no terms and has offered no peace other than annihilation. Russia has offered peace deal after peace deal for ten years. You know these things are not comparable, and to insist they are for the sake of your pride is to whitewash the zionist entity's genocide.

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Saapas

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washingtonpost.com/opinions/20…

It's not exactly a rare sentiment from pro-Israel side. And it's easy to recognize how bullshit it is. Which is why it's such a good comparison.

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cfgaussian

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It's actually the exact opposite. It is the Ukrainian Nazis who think and behave exactly like the Zionists, up to and including their systematic use of torture, their brutal execution of captives and civilians "sympathetic to the enemy", and their penchant for assassinations and terrorist attacks on civilians.

It is not a coincidence that they openly say that they want to turn Ukraine into a "larger Israel". Or that they help Zionist backed terrorists in Syria and the Sahel.

It is these Banderite fascists, who have illegally seized control of Ukraine and now brutally repress the population, who have a fanatical ethnic hatred of Russians and who want to ethnically cleanse Ukraine of everything Russian like the Israelis want to do to Palestinians.

The Russians don't and have never reciprocated this hatred. They consider the Ukrainians their brothers. The liberated territories are full of Ukrainians who now live as equal citizens of Russia. There are millions of Ukrainian refugees who chose to go to Russia.

If and when Russia completely absorbs Ukraine, the Ukrainians will still be living on their land, just as peacefully as any of the other 150+ ethnic minorities in the Russian Federation. The same cannot be said of the Palestinians and their stolen land.

The Kiev regime is Israel. The ethnic Russian people of the Donbass are the Palestinians. Only unlike the Palestinians they were lucky enough to have a neighboring country willing to step in to protect them and liberate them from the genocidal Western-backed fascists.

Russia is doing in Ukraine what the collective Arab world should be doing in Palestine: eradicating a Nazi regime.

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Saapas

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There's a shitload of hatred towards Ukrainians by Russians online. Saying they just consider them their brothers is laughable, some absolutely hate Ukrainians and want to eradicate them and erase their identity (and saying how they're just Russians while also saying they're pigs or something(?))

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cfgaussian

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Why are there millions of Ukrainians living peacefully and happily in Russia alongside Russians, if Russians hate Ukrainians? Why do so many of these Ukrainians living in Russia support Russia and the SMO?

Is it maybe because the only Ukrainians who the Russians actually hate are the Nazis who have hijacked the country of Ukraine, turned the country into a prison from which no one but the rich can leave, and brainwashed the people into hating Russians? Brainwashed them into hating themselves in fact, since a majority of Ukrainians are native Russian speakers...

Should the Russians love these extremist fascists who murder and torture Ukrainians and Russians alike and commit terrorist acts against civilians?

I'm not saying every single Russian is perfect or that there aren't any who make stupid generalizations about Ukrainians, but clearly the mainstream Russian opinion and most importantly the government position, is that Ukrainians are brothers (literally, so many families have relatives on both sides of the border). The ethnic hatred hasn't been elevated to the level of state policy there. The extremists in Russia haven't been empowered like they have in Ukraine.

And weren't you claiming that the Russians are doing to Ukraine what Israel is doing to Gaza? Now you say they just want to "erase their identity". Do the Zionists just want to turn the Palestinians into Israelis? Do they believe that Palestinians are just Israelis who have been led astray? No. They don't even see the Palestinians as humans. They want to physically kill or remove them from the land.

In Mariupol, Russia has rebuilt for free the local residents' homes that were destroyed in the fighting. When is the last time Israel allowed Palestinians to even return to their homes at all, let alone rebuilt their homes that the Israelis demolished?

Why is Ukrainian an official and protected language in the Donbass and Crimea and is even taught in schools there, if the Russians wanted to erase Ukrainian identity? Why are there streets named after Ukraine in Moscow?

Meanwhile in Ukraine the Russian language is banned, even though it is the native language of most of Eastern Ukraine. They literally punish children for speaking Russian in schools. They burn Russian books. The Russian Orthodox Church is being attacked. History books were rewritten to glorify Nazis and vilify the Soviet liberators (many of them were Ukrainians btw). Streets and towns with Russian names were renamed, and many now bear names of Nazi collaborators. Who is trying to erase who's identity?

Why is it that after nearly four years of conflict involving millions of combatants in Ukraine, the conflict has one of the lowest civilian to combatant casualty ratios of any modern war? Why are there are nowhere near as many civilian casualties in all these years as there were in just the first few months of the Gaza genocide?

Why is it that every time Israel drops a bomb they kill a dozen Palestinians, but when Russia launches entire salvos of hundreds of drones and missiles it is rare to have even one or two civilian casualties? Is it maybe because the Russians do not want to mass murder Ukrainians like the Israelis want to do to the Palestinians?

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Saapas

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There's a lot of Russians who live(d) in Ukraine. Those of course are going to be welcomed in Russia. And there's Ukrainians who support Russia over their own country, those are going to officially be well received too. So there's really not big disconnect between the hateful attitudes and official proparanda.

And sometimes they treat Ukrainians as "brothers" in the sense that they're denying their whole identity as Ukrainians.

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cfgaussian

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There's a lot of Russians who live(d) in Ukraine

So every Russian-speaking Ukrainian is just a Russian? It seems it's you who is denying Ukrainian identity.

What exactly constitutes a Ukrainian in your opinion? Is it just someone who hates Russia? If a Ukrainian speaks Russian as their native language and likes Russia do they cease to be Ukrainian?

And sometimes they treat Ukrainians as "brothers" in the sense that they're denying their whole identity as Ukrainians.

So which is it? Do they hate Ukrainians or do they think they are one and the same?

And if they are denying Ukrainian identity, why does Ukrainian language have officially protected status in the new Russian regions, why is it offered to be taught in schools, unlike Russian language in Ukraine which is heavily suppressed? Again, who is trying to erase who's identity?

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Saapas

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So every Russian-speaking Ukrainian is just a Russian?

Nobody claimed this

What exactly constitutes a Ukrainian in your opinion?

I trust their own identity and view on this one.

So which is it? Do they hate Ukrainians or do they think they are one and the same?

Both happen. And denying one's identity is a pretty hateful act.

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cfgaussian

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I trust their own identity and view on this one.

So you can't even tell them apart, is what you're saying.

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Saapas

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I'm saying I'm not trying to define their identity for them. I'm happy to just go with this

I wouldn't be able to tell Portuguese and Brazilian people apart either. I hope that doesn't erase their identities.

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BrainInABox

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Not really; Russia grants citizenship to the people in annexed territory, compared to Israel ethnically cleansing them to replace with Settlers.

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Cowbee [he/they]

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Ukraine surrenders, the war stops, and the already pro-Russian seperatist regions get to go where they want to go. The pro-Kiev regions of Ukraine stay with Ukraine, and no more killings on either side will happen.

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Saapas

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It's a generous deal, surrender and become a subjugated buffer state. Gotta love imperialism

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Cowbee [he/they]

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It isn't imperialism, Russia is intervening on behalf of the seperatists in Donetsk and Luhansk that have been fighting Kiev for a decade. Kiev is losing, they do not get to dictate terms, just try to negotiate for better. It's in Ukraine's interest to try to negotiate now, rather than continue to lose what bargaining chips they have through millitary defeat.

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Saapas

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Invading other countries, conquering parts of them and adding them to your country and creating butter states isn't imperilaism

Hah yeah right

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Cowbee [he/they]

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Donetsk and Luhansk broke away from Kiev, and requested Russian support, then voted to join Russia. Kiev has been at war with Donetsk and Luhansk for over a decade, and are majority pro-Russian. Imperialism isn't sinply annexing territory.

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Saapas

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Invading, annexing, creating buffer states, that's pretty much the typical shit imperilaist countries do

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Cowbee [he/they]

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Sure, imperialist countries do that too, but Russia isn't an imperialist country. It holds a tiny amount of global financial capital compared to the west, has no colonies nor neocolonies, and does not function by exporting capital to super-exploit the global south.

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Saapas

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Russia of course does what people complain about imperialist countries do, but you see, Russia is too poor to count. It's just sparkling hostility.

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Cowbee [he/they]

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People correctly attack imperialist countries for plundering the global south, setting up comprador regimes, bombing and destroying anyone that tries to go against that. Russia doesn't do that, though. Russia is sticking to the areas in Ukraine that seceded and voted to join Russia, the Donbass region, after a decade of Kiev murdering ethnic Russians in said region. Russia isn't plundering the global south because it can't, and isn't in a position to do so.

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Saapas

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Now Russian imperialism doesn't count as imperialism because most of Russia's hostility and imperialism is happening too close to their borders. Amazing.

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Cowbee [he/they]

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You haven't once explained how it's imperialism, though. Annexation isn't imperialism.

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Saapas

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I posted two very common definitions above and it's imperialism because it fits the definition. It shouldn't matter if you support it, it's not a reason to not consider it imperialism.

Russia is invading countries, annexing land, creating buffer zones. That's like run of the mill imperialism.

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Cowbee [he/they]

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There's no colonization going on. You're confusing the measures imperialist countries use with the actual process of imperialism. Imperialist and non-imperialist countries annex territory, that doesn't mean all annexation is imperialism.

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Saapas

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Cowbee [he/they]

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Even if we use this liberal, vibes-based definition, Russia isn't imperialist. Russia is responding to the requests of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics for support, and they voted to join Russia. Russia isn't establishing hegemony, nor an Empire. You're confusing the measures imperialist countries use to maintain imperialism with imperialism itself, which is a form of international plunder.

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queermunist she/her

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 settimane fa • •

You're not vibing hard enough.

If the US responded to the "requests" of separatists for support, and then those separatists voted to join the US, the imperialism would be pretty obvious. How do you explain to liberals that there is a difference?

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Cowbee [he/they]

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The US is the world's Empire and does super-exploit the global south for profits, ergo we need to understand the manner with which it props up seperatist groups are to service thode ends. Russia does not have the same economic forces at play. This is before you look into the origins of these movements and their history over time.

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queermunist she/her

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We can't understand any of that if we use the liberal, vibes based definition of imperialism. As far as they're concerned you're just doing mental gymnastics, imperialism is just when countries do empire stuff like annexations and invasions.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to queermunist she/her • 2 settimane fa • •

Yes, and I've tried to explain how they confuse methods common to imperialist countries with imperialism itself, even explaining how imperialism is driven by export of capital for foreign plunder. They've obstinately reduced imperialism simply to a preference of foreign policy, rather than an economic process.

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queermunist she/her

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I've actually heard liberals say defining imperialism as economic is specifically a Leninist definition of imperialism, just so they don't have to engage with it. Lenin was just trying to confuse us! Everyone knows the USSR was an empire. 🤡

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Cowbee [he/they]

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Yep, the reason I'm trying to engage this way is because trying to explain Lenin's analysis just leads them to saying that changing the name of something doesn't change its nature, which is correct, and is why I try to focus more on even using their liberal definition they are wrong.

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queermunist she/her

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 settimane fa • •

Does it work?

I've found some success in turning the focus back on the West. The NATO bloc has put Ukraine in $100 billion in debt, has made all of its aid conditional on the exploitation of its energy and mineral and agricultural resources, and is intent on fighting to the last Ukrainian. It makes Western imperialism in Ukraine pretty obvious, even if I don't touch on Maidan being a coup that installed a neonazi banderite regime run by Western collaborators (because they'll dismiss that as Russian propaganda).

My angle has always been that the West never wanted Ukraine to even win, they just wanted it to be a millstone around Russia.

Defending Russia's actions seems impossible. As we see here, to the liberal mind, whoever swings first is the bad guy. That's it.

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Cowbee [he/they]

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I can normally get people to see at least how NATO is bad, but they inevitably see it as preferable over Russia, which is a better position but not great.

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Saapas

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Attacking a country, annexing parts of them, creating a buffer zone out of country and trying to be the predominant country in the area is definitely not extending power, expansionism and trying to be regional hegemon

The struggle to just not call duck a duck reminds me of this meme

It's especially strange since you seem to be fine with all of the very imperialistic actions Russia are doing, you just don't like it being called imperialism.

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Cowbee [he/they]

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Again, you're confusing the measures imperialist countries use to perpetuate international plunder, ie imperialism, with imperialism itself. Annexation can be done by imperialist countries in order to set up or protect their systems of international exploitation, or it can be done in non-imperialist fashions, such as when seperatists that are being ethnically cleansed by Kiev request to join Russia, and Russia obliges.

Countries do not simply "exert power" for the sake of it, but as a means to an end. Russia's acceptance of the requests for support from Donetsk and Luhansk against the far-right regime ethnically cleansing them is different from the US Empire engaging in brutal sanctions on Cuba for nationalizing industries owned by Statesian capitalists. The latter is an example of the methods used by imperialists to protect their plunder, as the Cuban revolutionaries kicked out the Statesian colonizers.

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Saapas

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You've clearly seen the common definitions used for imperialism and choose to define it in a way that excludes Russia. I guess at that point not much else can be said that sure it doesn't fit your definition but it does fit those very common definitions. Can't go anywhere there if we just can't agree on the definition to use.

I just find it strange to try and deny them being imperialist if the horrible things imperialists do are still fine. If you are fine with invasion, annexation, buffer state creating then being opposed to being grouped with other countries that do that seems minor.

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Cowbee [he/they]

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It doesn't fit those liberal definitions, and I explained why. I'm okay with Russia responding to the requests of seperatists being ethnically cleansed by the far-right Banderite regime. More than that, imperialism is an economic construction included in your definitions, as Empires necessarily function by extracting vast sums of wealth from their colonies and neocolonies. Russia isn't doing that, it's engaged in a fight against a far-right state that has been ethnically cleansing ethnic Russians since 2014. It isn't trying to create colonies or protect its colonial holdings, like the US Empire is currently doing with Venezuela.

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Saapas

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 settimane fa • •

You just rephrased the exact same actions in a different way. The reality is that Russia invaded Ukraine, annexed land and is trying to create a buffer state. Russia's actions fit the definitions beat by beat, you just feel like using nicer sounding language about the exact same actions changes things when it just doesn't.

Here's the definition for a refresher

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to Saapas • 2 settimane fa • •

Wrong.

In 2014, the west backed a far-right coup, placing Banderites in charge of Kiev. They started suppressing ethnic Russians in the Donbass region, resulting in Donetsk and Luhansk seceding and forming their own breakaway states. These states were at war for a decade, which Russia tried to patch up with the Minsk agreements, which Kiev broke both times. Finally, the DPR and LPR requested Russian intervention, and Russia accepted in 2022. Afterwards, a referendum was held, and both the DPR and LPR voted to join the Russian Federation, rather than continue to be ethnically cleansed by the Nazis in Kiev.

The definition you give doesn't apply to Russia's actions here. The part about expansionism in your definition is in service of maintaining empire, an economic status. Russia is not an Empire, nor is it becoming one, because it is not creating colonies nor plundering from them. Annexing territory is not imperialism, what would be imperialism is the US Empire forcibly annexing Hawaii to serve as a millitary base and to harvest for minerals after couping Liliʻuokalani against the wishes of the people.

Imperialism is an economic relationship that is maintained by the measures you listed. Imperialism is where one country exports capital and leverages this to extract vast sums of wealth from imperialized countries. Imperialism is maintained by hegemony and expansionism. Russia annexing groups that voted to join Russia without setting up any colonies doesn't at all meet the definitions of imperialism. Posting your same definition that's already flawed and vibes-based and yet you still misunderstand will not prove any point to anyone here.

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Saapas

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The definition you give doesn’t apply to Russia’s actions here. The part about expansionism in your definition is in service of maintaining empire, an economic status.

Empire-building links back to imperialism. I'm sorry but you can't just add in new requirements until you are satisfied with the results. It doesn't work like that.

I should've also included this part earlier with all the talk about colonies

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Cowbee [he/they]

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Russia is clearing Kiev's forces out of the DPR and LPR. You have not explained how this is in service of empire-building or colonialism, which are economic relations.

I'm not adding requirements, I'm going off of your own requirements.

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Saapas

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 settimane fa • •

You call their invasion and annexation "clearing out Kiev's forces". You don't see how changing the language doesn't make what's actually happening any different?

And no, the definition didn't include your additions. You are taking the definition, adding more requirements and still claiming it is the same requirement. Not how it works.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to Saapas • 2 settimane fa • •

Do you support the rights of Donetsk and Luhansk to escape ethnic cleansing, and establish their own territory?

Secondly, no, I'm not adding. What do you think an empire is? What is colonization? You're reducing all of these to mere political preference instead of economic relationships, cherry-picking vague summaries and sticking your head in the sand when it comes to parts of those summaries that explain the economic factor that you are keen on erasing.

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Saapas

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 settimane fa • •

My support doesn't have any bearing on the definition of the word or what is actually happening. I'm flattered you think it does though.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to Saapas • 2 settimane fa • •

It absolutely has bearing. If you recognize the right of self-determination for the people in Donetsk and Luhansk, then you recognize their right to join Russia. Consensual joining of territory is absolutely not imperialism, and Kiev trying to prevent the ethnic Russians it has been slaughtering from leaving its grasp is closer to what Israel is doing to Palestinians.

Secondly, no, I’m not adding. What do you think an empire is? What is colonization? You’re reducing all of these to mere political preference instead of economic relationships, cherry-picking vague summaries and sticking your head in the sand when it comes to parts of those summaries that explain the economic factor that you are keen on erasing.

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Saapas

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 settimane fa • •

If I'm in support of their invasion, annexation, expansion and creation of buffer state it doesn't change anything about the actual actions. And it's the actions and not the language that makes one an empire.

Secondly, no, I’m not adding.
parts of those summaries that explain the economic factor

I'd be happy to see you point out those parts in the actual articles. As a matter of fact, the imperialism article even has this addition about colonialism

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to Saapas • 2 settimane fa • •

Annexing territory is not imperialism itself. It can be a part of imperialism, if you relate it to how it's in service of economic extraction and the setting up of imperialized subjects. If you support the people in Donetsk and Luhansk as having sovereignty, then Kiev's Banderites are invading their territory and thus Russia is clearing out the invading force. That's why I asked if you recognize the right of self-determination for the people of Donetsk and Luhansk, because it seems you support Kiev's right to ethnically cleanse them.

Secondly, colonialism is different but related. Colonialism is the direct subjugation of one country under another, with formalized occupying forces and states, like what happened in Algeria. Imperialism on the other hand is the more general process of exporting capital and plundering the global south. The methods of expansionism and colonialism are means by which to maintain imperialism.

Reading 2 short paragraphs on Wikipedia and thinking you know enough to understand what imperialism is and the mechanisms it operates by is the peak of liberal hubris.

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Saapas

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 settimane fa • •

Krhm. I said, I’d be happy to see you point out those parts in the actual articles. You didn't do that. But interestingly, the article on imperialism does include this

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to Saapas • 2 settimane fa • •

It doesn't say Russia is imperialist, it says it has been accused of neo-colonialism and described as neo-imperialist. Both of those are true, it has indeed been incorrectly accused and described as such, as we have proven here.

Further, Wikipedia is extremely western, liberal, imperialist biased. The editors are overwhelmingly western and liberal, and as such present such a view. Prolewiki is a Marxist wiki, that openly has its own biases, and has this to say of Russian "imperialism:"

It only has 4 of the top 100 corporations in the world and 6 of the top 500. 82% of Russian exports are raw materials, including 58% oil, 11% metal, and 6% food. In 2017, Russia imported $106.2 billion worth' of machine goods and only exported $12.8 billion. Russia does not have any of the top 100 corporations in terms of capital export, and most Russian capital export is capital flight to tax havens. Russia only controls 0.7% of the world's wealth and has much less wealth per adult than the United States ($8,843 vs $336,528). Russia has intervened militarily in other countries such as Yugoslavia, Georgia, Ukraine, and Syria, but not to seize natural resources like imperialist countries do.

It also has this to say of imperialism in general:

Imperialism is the most recent evolution of the capitalist mode of production that began in the late 1800s to early 1900s, in which monopolies and cartels become the dominant economic force of society.[1] It involves the merger of banking capital with industrial capital to create the greater finance capital and a fundamental distinguishing character of export of capital instead of export of commodities.
It is a global system of economic, political, and military domination, with the imperialist powers using a variety of means, including economic sanctions, military interventions, and cultural influence to maintain their dominance over other nations.

So your biased view doesn't work. When we take your definitions at face value, and apply them to the facts on the ground, we can see that those accusing Russia of neo-imperialism and neo-colonialism are wrong, and we can also see that leftists don't think Russia is imperialist either.

Again: Do you support the rights of Donetsk and Luhansk to escape ethnic cleansing, and establish their own territory?

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Saapas

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 settimane fa • •

You claimed the definitions I posted had those additional requirements and that the articles agreed with you. Now you are having a big issue with the definitions and the articles. I was fine with you using your preferred definition so I'm not sure why you even had that particular fight.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to Saapas • 2 settimane fa • •

I used the definitions given by the article, and expanded on what it had laid out, like empire-building. When you displayed a separate article trying to give analysis, not just a definition, I explained how using the definition you gave, the analysis is incorrect. The reason I bothered with letting you cherry pick a definition is because you are correct about one thing, that changing the name of something doesn't change the actions. That's why I've focused on proving your own definition inapplicable, and asked you over and over again:

Do you support the rights of Donetsk and Luhansk to escape ethnic cleansing, and establish their own territory?

I take it you don't at this point, it seems you're in favor of Kiev's stance that they have the right to ethnically cleanse the Donbass region of ethnic Russians.

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Saapas

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 settimane fa • •

You could post the "cut off" parts here so we can see that they are indeed in the articles as requirements and not additions as I've said.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to Saapas • 2 settimane fa • •

They aren't cut off in the literal sense, I misspoke, they are just not expanded upon, like the concept of maintaining an Empire. At this point though, it's clear that you think ethnic cleansing is legitimate.

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Saapas

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 settimane fa • •

So they are not in the articles but you just feel like those are included, even though they don't actually include it in words.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to Saapas • 2 settimane fa • •

"Imperialism focuses on establishing or maintaining hegemony and a more formal empire."

This is what you ignored, over, and over, and over, and over, and over again, and which I answered over, and over, and over, and over, and over again. Russia isn't establishing or maintaining hegemony or a more formal empire, you focus on the fact that the Donbass voted to join Russia as evidence of their "expansionism," and stopped thinking there when that's not even the focus of imperialism or what constitutes it.

This is all in addition to your support of ethnic cleansing, of course.

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Saapas

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 settimane fa • •

Russia is clearly trying to create a local hegemony and using rhetoric from their imperialistic history. Well put here:

There's also a whole article

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_…

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to Saapas • 2 settimane fa • •

These "analysts" are wrong, as I've explained already. Wikipedia doesn't even try to pretend these are facts, but accusations. Why are you so insistent on Wikipedia, and defending ethnic cleansing?

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Saapas

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 settimane fa • •

I know you disagree with the analysts. I was just posting this to show that maybe the view on Wikipedia doesn't align with you after all, in actual words or in "cut off" extra definitions.

Wikipedia is a very popular site that usually uses very common definitions as their basis. That's why I originally used it.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to Saapas • 2 settimane fa • •

I've already explained, using the definition Wikipedia gives, Russia does not fit that. Wikipedia is not written by a single person, nor do the analysts that claim Russia is imperialist write the definitions given by Wikipedia as their claimed definition. It's also possible for someone to give a definition, have that definition not apply to something, yet still have that same person incorrectly apply it. Moreover, Wikipedia is saying some analysts, not even taking a definitive stance itself.

Wikipedia is indeed popular in the west. So is Fox News and CNN, NYT, etc. That doesn't mean they are correct or valid.

Why do you dodge the question of sovereignty for Donetsk and Luhansk?

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Saapas

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 settimane fa • •

You don't think it fits, but the sources in the article certainly do.

Moreover, Wikipedia is saying some analysts, not even taking a definitive stance itself.

Wikipedia uses that sort of wording pretty often

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to Saapas • 2 settimane fa • •

The analysts are wrong, as I explained. Wikipedia does indeed refuse to take a stance on most things, it's a terrible source for political history and current events. Sometimes the sources can be nice, but often they are terrible.

Why do you dodge the question of sovereignty for Donetsk and Luhansk?

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Saapas

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 settimane fa • •

Your disagreement with the analysts and the articles has been noted. I don't think there's anything else to do here than agree to disagree.

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BrainInABox

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Why do you dodge the question of sovereignty for Donetsk and Luhansk?

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sorrybookbroke

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It's a gas pipeline. That's a valid military target

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Horse {they/them}

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generally infrastructure such as this is usually defined as civilian objects protected under article 52

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ArtVandelay

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Terror plot? Fuck right off

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Thousands of protesters gather as German far-right party sets up new youth organization

Obviously, they were attacked by the Police. https://t.me/theredstream/14853

Thousands of protesters gather as German far-right party sets up new youth organization

Thousands of demonstrators have gathered in the western German city of Giessen as the far-right Alternative for Germany’s new youth organization is set to kick off its founding convention

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Convincing evidence Israel backed aid convoy looters in Gaza, historian says

Account of visit to Gaza by French professor describes Israeli military attacks on security personnel protecting convoys

^{Jason Burke (The Guardian)}

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Dominican Authorities Arrest Journalist Ralph Laurent at Santo Domingo Airport

Dominican Authorities Arrest Journalist Ralph Laurent at Santo Domingo Airport - Haiti Liberte

As we go to press on the morning of Nov. 26, Dominican authorities have been holding a popular Haitian-American journalist in an immigration detention facility for almost three days without charges, although he is a U.S.

^{Kim Ives (Haiti Liberte)}

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Solus 4.8 Released

We’re nearing the holiday season, and what better way to kick it off than by releasing new Solus ISOs? This release is called Opportunity, for all the new opportunities that are open to us. A lot has happened since we released Solus 4.7 at the beginning of this year, so let’s go over the changes.
General Epoch jump In October, we made the jump to a new epoch, the final chapter of our “Usr-Merge” saga. With the new epoch, we started using a new package repository, named Polaris, after the North Star. This unlocked our ability to remove “Usr-Merge” compatibility symbolic links from packages, update our systemd package, and more.

Solus 4.8 Released

^getsol.us

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funkajunk

in reply to malfisya • 2 settimane fa • •

I thought Solus was dead

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Peter1986C

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I switched to it (KDE version) earlier this year (away from Fedora) and apart from a few minor things (e.g. there was no firewall, so I installed firewalld) it has been running pretty well.

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malfisya

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Clearly, it is alive 🙂

nkk via Privacy

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GrapheneOS being targeted by France

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@everyone GrapheneOS is being heavily targeted by the French state because we provide highly secure devices and won't include backdoors for law enforcement access. They're conflating us with companies selling closed source products using portions of our code. Both French state media and corporate media are publishing many stories attacking the GrapheneOS project based on false and unsubstantiated claims from French law enforcement. They've made a clear threat to seize our servers and arrest our developers if we do not cooperate by adding backdoors. Due to this, we're leaving France and leaving French service providers including OVH. We need substantial help from the community to push back against this across platforms. People malicious towards us are also using it as an opportunity to spread libel/harassment content targeting our team, raid our chat rooms and much more. /e/ and iodéOS are both based in France, and are both actively attacking GrapheneOS. /e/ receives substantial government funding. Both are extremely non-private and secure which is why France is targeting us while those get government funding. We need a lot more help than usual and we're sending our the first ever notification to everyone on the server because this is a particularly bad situation. If people help us, it will enable us to focus more on development again including releasing experimental Pixel 10 releases very soon.

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nkk

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xcancel.com/GrapheneOS/status/…

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houjou

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all I see is graphene attacking /e/ . I mean yes we get it they are less secure but still in the industry standard. It's just not for the same users.

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Technical issue: can't see some of my own comments

I religiously delete my comments every so often, maybe every few weeks or months. I noticed several months ago that it appeared that my account comments reset on their own, but I still had a marker stating that I had 60 remaining comments. Try as I might, on the Voyager app or through the browser (mobile?), I was unable to see these 60 comments that I know I hadn’t deleted, yet.

Well, just recently I opened the browser version, and realized that I was logged out but still viewing my account externally. I figured I’d go back and see if I could see the comments, and they were there. So, I logged back in and checked and they weren’t. I went back and forth a few times to confirm, and they were there and weren’t there repeatedly. I’m just unable to view them while logged in, and can see them when I’m logged out.

What’s going on? Something in the back end? Is there a way to make these comments visible again for me, or can someone go in there and delete them for me?

#lemmy_support

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PiraHxCx

in reply to NJSpradlin • 2 settimane fa • •

Do you use language tags in your comments and have language set in your profile?
It could be that you made the comment in one language and that language is set to be hidden now.

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PiraHxCx

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There's also the possibility these comments are on instances, communities, or posts by users you've blocked.

Outwatered Fish via Linux

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I made Qogir-style icons for Books, Build, and Games folders since the icon pack doesn't have them by default.

Hello everyone, I hope you are doing well.

I was a wee bit tired of staring at default folders in my home folder for the Games, Build, and Books locations, so I ended up making my own icons for each by using outlines of different already-existing icons from applications. Feedback is greatly appreciated.

In case any of you just so happen to use the Qogir icon theme, and that you have these folders in your home folder, the SVGs are available here if you are interested.

Please note that I threw these files together using the scalable version of the folder icon, and that I don't have any dedicated 32, 48, 96 etc versions of these files. On top of that, I only have the folder versions of these icons, not symbolic. SVGs are difficult (due to my lack of experience), and so I had to cheat by targeting each individual colour, rather than making an outline and then messing with transparency like the rest of the icon set. Needless to say, if anyone has good inkscape tips, please let me know!

Three blue folders in a file manager, the first, labelled "Books," contains an outline of an icon of a book, the second, labelled "build" contains an outline of a hammer, and the third, "Games'" contains the outline of a video game controller. These folders are on a dark grey background.

Proton Drive

Securely store, share, and access your important files and photos. Anytime, anywhere.

^{drive.proton.me}

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Archr

in reply to sleen • 2 settimane fa • •

This exactly. It feels like everything gets thrown in documents and then it just becomes one big mess. Game saves, coding projects. I've even seen some apps put their configs in Documents.

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Outwatered Fish

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"Ah fuck it, slap a dot in front of it and shove it in the home folder"

--Way to many devs.

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Sticky situation

cross-posted from: [url=https://piefed.social/c/memes/p/1521318/sticky-situation]https://piefed.social/c/memes/p/1521318/sticky-situation[/url]

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EtnaAtsume via Privacy

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Maintaining privacy on a new desktop

Hello. I installed Linux Mint on a new desktop that I built about a week ago, and I'm starting to get used to it, so it's probably time to start using it for some actual life things.

A couple of these do involve talking with family members all in Facebook Messenger, as well as the necessity of using Google Workspace for some work-related functions.

I'm aware that using both of these is a compromise of privacy in and of itself, but I'm still interested in mitigating the damages best as I can.

What steps can I take to make the usage of these as private and non-invasive as possible? If it helps at all, the browser I'm using is Firefox and the operating system is Linux Mint.

#privacy

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gustofwind

in reply to EtnaAtsume • 2 settimane fa • •

UBlock origin adblocker is probably all most people realistically need

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N.E.P.T.R

in reply to EtnaAtsume • 2 settimane fa • •

You can use both through the browser, which is the safest way of doing things because the browser sandboxes the web apps, isolating them from your system. If you prefer an app for Messenger, look on Flathub, though I advise against it. The two apps I found for Messenger are Franz and Ferdium (a fork of Franz with more features).

To mitigate the privacy risks:
- Firefox with uBlock Origin (or Librewolf)
- Avoid sharing anything sensitive.

Nothing much you can do sadly.

Flathub - Apps for Linux

Find and install hundreds of apps and games for Linux. Enjoy Firefox, Telegram, RetroArch, GIMP and many more!

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EtnaAtsume

in reply to N.E.P.T.R • 2 settimane fa • •

Seems like the best solution would be to install this and use messenger and Google Workspace only through this and my normal browsing in Firefox. Thank you for the guidance!

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N.E.P.T.R

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Yeah np. Good luck.

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scytale

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Use the facebook container extension on firefox so your session is isolated from the rest of your browsing. Also look up guides to harden firefox.

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PiraHxCx

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I think that primarily third-party cookies are the most problematic thing when browsing the web, they use that crap to track you across sites and use it for ad targeting and "dynamic pricing". Yeah, uBlock Origin will deal with most of it, but Google/Amazon/Meta/X are very aggressive, so I’d consider using different browsers for different activities, and having a more secure browser if you are dealing directly with Facebook and Google accs, something like Mullvad if you can get used to the default screen letterboxing. This, with the cookie purging, will help you avoid theirs and others' cross-site tracking - just remember that not saving cookies means you are going to unlog from the sites every time you close the browser.
My main browser for daily, relaxed stuff is LibreWolf. I set cookie exceptions for sites I want to stay logged (like Lemmy). Some stuff doesn’t work correctly on LibreWolf because of some stuff it purged from FireFox, so you can go and do some manual configuration to harden regular Firefox and use for streaming and such, can also use it with Chameleon addon to give you a different signature from when you are using the other browsers. You can also change your VPN location when you are using each browser, so one more thing to make you look like a different user for each and make it less likely to have your different activities linked together.
If you are more tech-savvy, try ungoogled-chromium, but it requires a lot of manual setup.

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url

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Use them in a separate Browser with Ublock origin.

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M4st3rSh0e

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Like everyone else said. You're pretty much fighting against tracking cookies at this point. My 2 cents. "Hardened" Firefox running containers for personal, shopping and that stiff. uBlock origin, Privacy Badger by the EFF and look up user-agent spoofing. Set your user-agent to something like Windows 11 chrome. If you're feeling adventurous look into a pi-hole as well.

Mereo via Linux

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RIP Windows: Linux GPU gaming benchmarks on Bazzite (Gamers Nexus)

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tehn00bi

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Watched it last night. It’s a bit of a novelty, but it showcases that with some planning, Linux can be a compelling gaming OS.

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st3ph3n

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Switched my gaming rig over a few weeks ago (Fedora 43 with KDE in my case). The games I play have generally performed better than on the same hardware under Windows 11. I'm fortunate in that the only multiplayer game I play is Counter Strike 2, and Valve has a vested interest in making sure that their anticheat works with Linux.

In the past week or so I've played Cyberpunk 2077 with AMD FSR4 support, CS2, and GTA IV with the fusion fix mod (this one runs ridiculously better than it did on Windows) via Steam, and Fallout London from GoG through Heroic Launcher. The hardest part of that was just configuring the wine prefix for Fallout London to be the same as the one Fallout 4, since it needs to share a bunch of the original game files. I've also got my Epic account hooked up through Heroic Launcher, but haven't tried any of their games yet. I mostly just have whatever they were giving away for free for the past few years on that service.

Really, gaming on Linux has improved in massive leaps and bounds over the past few years. It is unrecognizable compared to even 5 years ago.

Conselheiro via World News

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General Strike: Italy Stops to Oppose War, Austerity, and Complicity with Israel

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/general-strike-italy-stops-to-oppose-war-austerity-and-complicity-with-israel/

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DonutsRMeh via Linux

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An update on the move from one motherboard to another.

Hi all,
Just wanted to update y’all about the move. Windows worked with zero issues, it just rebooted a couple of time and then took over the boot menu, and I couldn’t get to grub. Basically windows told grub to kick rocks and put itself at the top of the boot sequence. No big deal and fixed it real quick.

Grub did get messed up, it wasn’t there. A chroot from a live environment, and a couple of commands fixed it.

All good and running now. 😀
Thank you so much to all who replied and helped. Y’all are amazing ❤

#linux

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𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆

in reply to DonutsRMeh • 2 settimane fa • •

Any UEFI secure boot enabled distro will remove all boot entries without a valid package key or a shim to a valid key.

Glad you got it working.

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DonutsRMeh

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Thank you. I just disabled secure boot altogether

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𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆

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::: spoiler Just be aware that W11 is secure boot only.
There is a lot of ambiguous nonsense about this subject by people that lack a fundamental understanding of secure boot. Secure Boot, is not supported by Linux at all. It is part of systems distros build outside of the kernel. These are different for various distros. Fedora does it best IMO, but Ubuntu has an advanced system too. Gentoo has tutorial information about how to setup the system properly yourself.

The US government also has a handy PDF about setting up secure boot properly. This subject is somewhat complicated by the fact the UEFI bootloader graphical interface standard is only a reference implementation, with no guarantee that it is fully implemented, (especially the case in consumer grade hardware). Last I checked, Gentoo has the only tutorial guide about how to use an application called Keytool to boot directly into the UEFI system, bypassing the GUI implemented on your hardware, and where you are able to set your own keys manually.

If you choose to try this, some guides will suggest using a better encryption key than the default. The worst that can happen is that the new keys will get rejected and a default will be refreshed. It may seem like your system does not support custom keys. Be sure to try again with the default for UEFI in your bootloader GUI implementation. If it still does not work, you must use Keytool.

The TPM module is a small physical hardware chip. Inside there is a register that has a secret hardware encryption key hard coded. This secret key is never accessible in software. Instead, this key is used to encrypt new keys, and hash against those keys to verify that whatever software package is untampered with, and to decrypt information outside of the rest of the system using Direct Memory Access (DMA), as in DRAM/system memory. This effectively means some piece of software is able to create secure connections to the outside world using encrypted communications that cannot be read by anything else running on your system.

As a more tangible example, Google Pixel phones are the only ones with a TPM chip. This TPM chip is how and why Graphene OS exists. They leverage the TPM chip to encrypt the device operating system that can be verified, and they create the secure encrypted communication path to manage Over The Air software updates automatically.

There are multiple Keys in your UEFI bootloader on your computer. The main key is by the hardware manufacturer. Anyone with this key is able to change all software from UEFI down in your device. These occasionally get leaked or compromised too, and often the issue is never resolved. It is up to you to monitor and update... - as insane as it sounds.

The next level key below, is the package key for an operating system. It cannot alter UEFI software, but does control anything that boots after. This is typically where the Microsoft key is the default. It means they effectively control what operating system boots. Microsoft has issued what are called shim keys to Ubuntu and Fedora. Last I heard, these keys expired in October 2025 and had to be refreshed or may not have been reissued by M$. This shim was like a pass for these two distros to work under the M$ PKey. In other words, vanilla Ubuntu and Fedora Workstation could just work with Secure Boot enabled.

All issues in this space have nothing to do with where you put the operating systems on your drives. Stating nonsense about dual booting a partition is the stupid ambiguous misinformation that causes all of the problems. It is irrelevant where the operating systems are placed. Your specific bootloader implementation may be optimised to boot faster by jumping into the first one it finds. That is not the correct way for secure boot to work. It is supposed to check for any bootable code and deplete anything without a signed encryption key. People that do not understand this system, are playing a game of Russian Roulette. There one drive may get registered first in UEFI 99% of the time due to physical hardware PCB design and layout. That one time some random power quality issue shows up due to a power transient or whatnot, suddenly their OS boot entry is deleted.

The main key, and package keys are the encryption key owners of your hardware. People can literally use these to log into your machine if they have access to these keys. They can install or remove software from this interface. You have the right to take ownership of your machine by setting these yourself. You can set the main key, then you can use the Microsoft system online to get a new package key to run W10 w/SB or W11. You can sign any distro or other bootable code with your main key. Other than the issue of one of the default keys from the manufacturer or Microsoft getting compromised, I think the only vulnerabilities that secure boot protects against are physical access based attacks in terms of 3rd party issues. The system places a lot of trust in the manufacturer and Microsoft, and they are the owners of the hardware that are able to lock you out of, surveil, or theoretically exploit you with stalkerware. In practice, these connections are still using DNS on your network. If you have not disabled or blocked ECH like cloudflare-ech.com, I believe it is possible for a server to make an ECH connection and then create a side channel connection that would not show up on your network at all. Theoretically, I believe Microsoft could use their PKey on your hardware to connect to your hardware through ECH after your machine connects to any of their infrastructure.

Then the TMP chip becomes insidious and has the potential to create a surveillance state, as it can be used to further encrypt communications. The underlying hardware in all modern computers has another secret operating system too, so it does not need to cross your machine. For Intel, this system is call the Management Engine. In AMD it is the Platform Security Processor. In ARM it is called TrustZone.

Anyways, all of that is why it is why the Linux kernel does not directly support secure boot, the broader machinery, and the abstracted broader implications of why it matters.

I have a dual boot w11 partition on the same drive with secure boot and have had this for the last 2 years without ever having an issue. It is practically required to do this if you want to run CUDA stuff. I recommend owning your own hardware whenever possible.
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hoshikarakitaridia

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Usually dual boot on the same drive is where things break.

Windows tends to play Pac-Man with other operating systems in those cases.

But either way happy you got it running and enjoy 😀

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DonutsRMeh

in reply to hoshikarakitaridia • 2 settimane fa • •

Thank you. I've actually separated their boot partitions from each other a long time ago since each one is on a separate drive. Windows still wanted to take over, no sir. Smacked it around and it chilled down. Lol

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hoshikarakitaridia

in reply to DonutsRMeh • 2 settimane fa • •

Fucking hell I didn't know they even went across different drives now. I'll keep using promox then lol

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DonutsRMeh

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lol. Yup. Windows first checks for an efi partition. If there is one, it uses it, if there isn’t, it the creates its own. At first I didn't know this, and every time I reinstalled my Linux system, windows is gone from the boot menu. It was a mystery until some random person online told me that. So, I then manually moved windows’ boot partition and gave it to it, and then deleted it from being in the same folder with the Linux one. Lucky for me, I always give the Linux boot partition a whole 1GB even though people recommend 300MiB or 500.

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Trump's Bigoted Attack on Somalis Denounced From Minneapolis to DC to Mogadishu

cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/1173…

President Donald Trump is being roundly condemned for making bigoted attacks on Somalis, whom he referred to collectively as "garbage" earlier this week.
During a Tuesday Cabinet meeting at the White House, Trump unleashed a racist tirade against Somali Americans living in Minnesota, whom he falsely portrayed as layabouts who sponge up welfare money.
"I don't want 'em in our country, I'll be honest with you," Trump said. "Their country's no good for a reason. Their country stinks, and we don't want 'em in our country. I can say that about other countries too... We're going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country."
Trump then singled out Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), a refugee from Somalia, as being "garbage," and then added that "her friends are garbage."

Trump on Somalis: "We're gonna go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage." pic.twitter.com/xtRtiTLzLz
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 2, 2025
Omar fired back at Trump in an op-ed published Thursday in the New York Times in which she said the president was resorting to overt bigotry against her community because he is rapidly losing popularity as his major policy initiatives fall apart.
Omar also defended her community against the false stereotypes deployed by Trump to disparage it.
"[Trump] fails to realize how deeply Somali Americans love this country," she wrote. "We are doctors, teachers, police officers, and elected leaders working to make our country better. Over 90% of Somalis living in my home state, Minnesota, are American citizens by birth or naturalization."
Speaking on behalf of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Rep. Chuy García (D-Ill.) defended Omar and the Somali community, and called Trump's attacks on them "unacceptable and un-American."
"Not only does Trump's dehumanizing language put a target on her back and put her family at risk, it endangers so many across our country who share her identities and heritage," García added. "We know just how dangerous this racist and inflammatory rhetoric is in an already polarized country."
In an interview with Al-Jazeera, Minnesota state Sen. Omar Fateh (D-62), who is also of Somali descent, said Trump's attacks were "hurtful" and "flat-out wrong" given what many Somalis in the US have accomplished.
"It is a community that has been resilient, that has produced so much," he said. "We are teachers and doctors and lawyers and even politicians taking part in every part of Minnesota’s economy and the nation’s economy."
He also emphasized that Trump's rhetoric was putting the entire Somali community in danger.
“We’ve had our mosques be targeted," he said. "Myself, I had a campaign office vandalized earlier this year, and so we want to make sure that our neighbors understand that we’re standing up for one another, showing up in this time in which we have a hostile federal government."
Trump's bigoted attacks on Somalis are also making waves overseas. Al-Jazeera also spoke with a resident of Mogadishu named Abdisalan Ahmed, who described Trump's remarks as "intolerable."
“Trump insults Somalis several times every day, calling us garbage and other derogatory names we can no longer tolerate," he said. "Our leaders should address his remarks."
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From Mogadishu to Minneapolis, Somalis reject Trump’s bigoted remarks

Advocates warn that Trump’s anti-Somali rhetoric has fuelled fear in US communities and anger abroad.

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NightOwl via World News

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NightOwl
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Judge in Palestine Action case has ties to Israel lobby

Victoria Sharp worked for Robert Maxwell and her twin brother sits on charity board with Trevor Chinn.

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wurzelgummidge

in reply to NightOwl • 2 settimane fa • •

Well, of course. If the judge was impartial there is a very real risk Palestine Action would win its case. We can't have that, can we?

Best regards,

The Government

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dx1

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Extra scummy judge, read the whole article.

young_broccoli via Linux

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young_broccoli
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Does anyone know how to fix this?[SOLVED]

By this I mean the psensor applet icon (second from the left) being to big.

I was messing arround trying to customize my desktop and i followed a guide on how to install and setup latte-dock (kde).
Long story short, i failed removed latte (although I think it may have left some stuff behind) and when I restored my cinnamon panel the icon was like this. I've already restored the system with timeshift but it made no difference and tried to set "symbolic icon size" in panel settings but it completely ignores it. I googled for a solution but cant find any :c

Any ideas?

P.S. If I set panel height too small, all the applet icons go halfway off screen through the bottom, something they didnt used to do.

SOLVED: Using this comand:

gsettings reset-recursively org.cinnamon

Reverts the icons to their normal behaviour. Thanks to potatoguy

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tonyn

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Does this help at all?

You are being redirected...

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young_broccoli

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Nope :c
I tested all the parameters mentioned in the thread and none worked. Thanks tho.

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young_broccoli

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Problem has been solved. thanks for your help.

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unexposedhazard

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How did you solve it?

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young_broccoli

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With this command:

gsettings reset-recursively org.cinnamon

After I used the command the window list applet stopped working but a reboot fixed it

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ISOmorph

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Potatoguy helping young_broccoli. Is this an ad for healthy nutrition?

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Avid Amoeba via Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services.

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Avid Amoeba
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Root on disk storage pool?

So far all my setups have had root on SSD mirror with separate hard disk storage pool for all the data. Years ago I used to keep the app config, databases and docker files on the root filesystem, while the app data resided on the storage pool. That was cumbersome for backups and storage size. Eventually I moved all app data to the storage pool. Essentially the apps can be started on any machine with a Linux OS that has docker installed. Database access is slower but it's a decent compromise for having trivial all-in-one snapshots and backup. Now I'm setting up a new NAS for a friend and I'm wondering whether it's worth keeping the root filesystem separate from the storage pool. If I put it on the disks, I'd get trivial full system snapshots and backups. I'd have the same hardware reliability as the storage pool. There wouldn't be issues with root filling up. The caveat is that the OS would be slower. Has anyone reasoned and/or tried this? Should I go for it?

E: I recently put my laptop's root on ZFS and the ability to do full backups while the system is running is pretty great. The full system can be pretty trivialy restored to a new drive with zfs send / recv during setup.

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just_another_person

in reply to Avid Amoeba • 2 settimane fa • •

You generally keep OS and storage separate for functionality, not necessarily because one is more safe than the other these days with more advanced journaling filesystems that can self-heal and keep things pretty safe and sound.

The main drawbacks to having them combined is all surrounding flexibility. If one fucks up, everything is fucked up. You won't be able to perform rescue operations on either without impacting both at the same, you can't change the layout of one without affecting both...etc.

Performance is obviously another one, but if you're not running critical operations for a business or whatever, it probably doesn't matter.

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Avid Amoeba

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Right, the flexibility angle makes sense if using a typical root fs like Ext4 with or without LVM. That's a reason I've always kept the OS separate. But with ZFS there's unlimited flexibility. Separate datasets or volumes within the same storage pool are trivial. I could do root on ZFS on separate SSDs and get those benefits but it's more complicated that slapping it all in a single pool. Then maybe use the SSDs for cache. 😁

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🏴حمید پیام عباسی🏴 via Memes

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Am I wrong??

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pineapple

in reply to 🏴حمید پیام عباسی🏴 • 2 settimane fa • •

Why does everyone here hate Trotsky/Trotskyism?

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popcap200

in reply to pineapple • 2 settimane fa • •

It's lemmy. It's full of Stalinist Tankies.

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rockSlayer

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I've mostly seen non-ml socialists and anarchists. I don't know what you've heard, but Trotsky was also ML.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to rockSlayer • 2 settimane fa • •

Trotskyists reject the term ML, instead preferring "Marxist and Leninist" over "Marxist-Leninist" to distance themselves from the soviet union, Trotsky himself rejected the ML label as well.

As far as not seeing many Marxist-Leninists, lemmy.blahaj.zone blocks Hexbear.net and Lemmygrad.ml, which have the bulk of the Marxist-Leninists on Lemmy.

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rockSlayer

in reply to pineapple • 2 settimane fa • •

Well I'm an anarchist, so a Trotskyist state is still a monopoly of violence

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DornerStan

in reply to pineapple • 2 settimane fa • •

Long history of wrecking/coopting movements and orgs.

I know good individual trots, but the trot orgs in my area are all white college students that show up uninvited to things they had no party in organizing, then selling shit or starting fights. We have a lot of coalition building among MLs, anarchists, and DSA types here, and it's always the Trots that refuse to find common ground or show any support whatsoever. Their praxis consists of wrecking/splitting, raising money, and defending sex pests.

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folaht

in reply to pineapple • 2 settimane fa • •

I actually don't know. I'm not that well-versed in communism, but I'll try to make a suggestion:

Marx never said to force communism, an envisioned futuristic system, to happen, the same way that one shouldn't force capitalism in the year 900, during the time of fuedalism if some visionary would predict such of type of governance to happen in the year 800. Even if you think capitalism is better than fuedalism, trying to implement it by introducing ballot boxes, constitutions, parliaments and such, likely would get you killed by the nobility and/or clergy, because you forgot to increase the increase the power of the merchants first, so that they could revolt, with lawyers by their side, or better said in front of them, against the old powers.

Trotsky wanted to implement a world government or capitalists will do everything in their power to try to destroy it.
Stalin wanted to develop socialism further in the Soviet Union into a better working model for other countries to emulate.

Furious debates ensued on who was on the right track.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to folaht • 2 settimane fa • •

Kinda.

Marx's point wasn't that you shouldn't try to advance modes of production, just that the ideas prevalent among the dominant classes at the time are shaped by their material conditions. Trotsky thought this meant socialism in Russia was impossible due to having a high number of the peasantry, thinking them incapable of allying with the proletariat. He was wrong. Stalin's decision to not attack the peasantry, and instead focus on developing socialism within the USSR, led to the firm establishment of the first socialist state.

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ComradeSharkfucker

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They are often incredibly stubborn and unwillingly to adapt socialist strategy to their different material conditions

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Hyper_red [she/her, she/her]

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Annoying and sex pests

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronstad…

uprising against the Bolsheviks in March 1921

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to pineapple • 2 settimane fa • •

Trotsky had some good points, and some terrible points, both theoretically and personally.

Trotksyism has essentially been a western-friendly form of Marxism-Leninism that tries to be what Marxism-Leninism is, but with no party discipline and no support for Actually Existing Socialism. Trotskyist orgs relentlessly bash socialist countries, and split over and over again. They haven't really done much of anything.

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pineapple

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 settimane fa • •

Trotskyist orgs relentlessly bash socialist countries.

I have seen this a lot. Like there are no currently succesful socialist countries. Are they just waiting for world revoluton?

But I also don't want to be yet another leftist that believes there theory is the best and everyone could just end leftist fighting if they became a [insert my prefered leftist theory]

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to pineapple • 2 settimane fa • •

You can't end leftist infighting by hoping for everyone to become the same kind of leftist, especially because different tendencies are often influenced by the given class character of a country. It's why agrarian communists are more likely to be Maoists, like what's found in the Naxalites, whereas western communists tend to be Trots. Marxism-Leninism is found everywhere, because it's the tendency that has most been tested in real life.

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pineapple

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 settimane fa • •

I agree.

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Andrzej3K [none/use name]

in reply to pineapple • 2 settimane fa • •

Tony Blair was a trot, Keir Starmer was a trot. I feel like this says a lot lol

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T (they/she)

in reply to pineapple • 2 settimane fa • •

Because MLs aren't very found of other leftists that offer criticism. This makes the revolution/movement weaker so better to label them as traitors

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OBJECTION!

in reply to T (they/she) • 2 settimane fa • •

I love it when other leftists offer criticism. It makes the movement stronger, not weaker, by allowing us to root out wrong ideas or approaches. "Ruthless criticism of everything that exists," as Marx said.

The problem I have with Trots is that they are incredibly obstinate about criticisms that make no fucking sense. For example, the chief Trotskyist criticism of the USSR is the whole "permanent revolution" thing, the idea of expanding the revolution globally. What that actually means is a permanent state of warfare with every other country on earth. Because supporting a revolution in another country's borders is a violation of their sovereignty.

This is a completely impractical and self-destructive approach to foreign policy, and to the extent that the USSR did try to expand communism to other countries, for example, in Afghanistan, it is rightfully criticized for it. But Trots will simultaneously criticize the USSR for things like invading Afghanistan and critize it for not being expansionist enough!

They're just contrarians for the sake of it. It's impossible to know what the Trotskyist position on anything is going to be unless you know the Soviet position, in which case you know it'll be the opposite. There's no actual reasoning beyond that.

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∞🏳️‍⚧️Edie [it/it/its/its/itself, she/her/her/hers/herself, fae/faer/faer/faers/faerself, love/love/loves/loves/loveself, des/pair, null/void, none/use name]

in reply to OBJECTION! • 2 settimane fa • •

Reminded me of this article, Trotskyists dont believe anything

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Great article, highly recommended for anyone reading through this thread.

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OBJECTION!

Exactly right.

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SpookyBogMonster

in reply to T (they/she) • 2 settimane fa • •

As an ML, I'm quite fond of other leftists, thank you very much.

While we might have our disagreements, some of them quite stark, I still get along with my Trotskyist or Anarchist friends, and their struggles are also my struggle. I might disagree with how they're going about it, but that's what critical support is for.

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DornerStan

in reply to 🏴حمید پیام عباسی🏴 • 2 settimane fa • •

Trotsky is good at appearing "right" because he plays fast and loose with the details so he can retroactively claim to have been for or against something after it already happened.

One example off the top of my head (forgive me if I misremember the specifics) is the NEP, which according to Trotsky and Trotskyites was originally his idea that Lenin initially disagreed with but eventually came around to. But, ignoring the fact that timing matters and a year is a long-ass time in a revolutionary period, the details also matter, since the goal wasn't to retreat to capitalism but to very carefully reintroduce certain market incentives to help develop certain sectors of the economy that had been obliterated during the war. So you can't just claim "oh I had this idea first" when your idea, at least according to Lenin, would overly benefit the Kulak class without adequately fostering a respective proletariat (or something along those lines). Lenin goes into this in great detail both when he dismisses Trotsky's plan and also when he introduced the NEP.

But he was also an asshole, notoriously elitist and dismissive of anyone he deemed intellectually inferior.

Honestly reading through the debates and speeches from the party meetings and congresses is great for breaking through a lot of the ahistorical western bullshit.

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RockBottom

in reply to 🏴حمید پیام عباسی🏴 • 2 settimane fa • •

He just said it to the wrong guy.

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3yiyo3

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He did not, in fact he talked even worse about Stalin. Lenin and Trotsky were pretty much friends. This is some tankie bullshit

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to 3yiyo3 • 2 settimane fa • •

"Friends" is overselling it, and Stalin was the one that was elected because he was a more capable leader with a better understanding of Marxist theory. With Sverdlov and Lenin dead, the choice was fairly obvious.

Trotsky's plan of Permanent Revolution rested on the idea that the peasantry would erode socialism, because he thought they could not be truly aligned with the proletariat. That's why he wanted to kick off revolution in the west, hoping that would save Russian socialism. This was, of course, proven false, as socialism survived and trying to build up socialism together with the peasantry worked out.

Trotsky then spent much of his time attacking the soviet union, essentially whining due to his loss. I don't think using a pejorative meant for those who defend socialist countries and oppose imperialism helps your argument here.

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TranscendentalEmpire

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 settimane fa • •

Trotsky's plan of Permanent Revolution rested on the idea that the peasantry would erode socialism, because he thought they could not be truly aligned with the proletariat.

Isn't that just in the case of later developing capitalist countries? My understanding was that he believed later developed capitalist countries would be unable to build the industrialized economy that creates a large proletariat class. So in these countries the existing proletariat would have to seize control and then later form an alliance with the peasantry down the road.

However, I don't think that means he only wanted to develop socialism with western nations. I mean Stalin and him had a major rift develop over Trotsky wanting to support the Chinese communist and Stalin siding with the kmt. One of the things I kinda agree with when it comes to Trotsky was his opposition to the socialism in one country policy.

This is kinda dependent on what year it is of course, Trotsky was kinda all over the place once he fell from grace.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to TranscendentalEmpire • 2 settimane fa • •

When the Russian revolution failed to inspire successful revolution in the west, they reached a dillema. Trotsky feared the Russian peasantry would attack, and so wanted to go on the offensive first, forcing collectivization early, hoping that would inspire the western proletariat. Stalin wanted to build up socialism domestically, rather than attack the peasantry. The peasantry turned out to be capable allies, and thus Stalin was correct.

Stalin's insistence on supporting the KMT even later as a bullwark against Japan ended up being wrong, but it's also worth noting that the Chinese Trotskyists were wrong, wanting to attack both the KMT and Japan before kicking out Japan. Mao and the CPC formed a temporary alliance against Japan, then kicked out the KMT, which ended up being correct.

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TranscendentalEmpire

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 settimane fa • •

When the Russian revolution failed to inspire successful revolution in the west, they reached a dillema. Trotsky feared the Russian peasantry would attack, and so wanted to go on the offensive first

What time frame are we referring too here, and what peasantry? Im guessing well before the implementation of the five year plan? Also, in his references to the peasantry I always kinda figured he was speaking about the kulaks.

Chinese Trotskyists were wrong, wanting to attack both the KMT and Japan before kicking out Japan. Mao and the CPC formed a temporary alliance against Japan, then kicked out the KMT, which ended up being correct.

I mean.... Like most things in this time period, it kinda depends on when you are talking about. In the beginning most communist did not like the decision to form a united front with the kmt, but acknowledged it as necessary. There wasn't really much of a delineation between trotskyists and stalinist until when it came to the kmt until the Shanghai massacre. And tbf it's kinda understandable that people like chen duxiu would want to break/attack with the kmt afterwards.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to TranscendentalEmpire • 2 settimane fa • •

Before the Russian revolution, and the experience and information gained by it, there was a wrong but prevalent idea that the peasantry would be counter-revolutionary, as they would have more of a petite-bourgeois ideology based on their largely self-driven living conditions. This isn't about kulaks, but the actual peasantry. Peasants are not proletarians, they are working classes but engage in fundamentally different relations.

Trotsky believed this wrong conclusion, which is why he believed that stable socialism could only come from developed capitalist countries, and that without their support Russian socialism was doomed. Trotsky also rejected that a country itself could be socialist, as he believed internationally the system being capitalist would cause a reversion to capitalism eventually. MLs don't disagree that international socialism is necessary, but Trotskyists tend to use this point as a way to bitterly attack socialist countries for not being "pure," which they can only believe will happen if global capitalism is eradicated. Basically, there's a destruction of nuance.

As for the Chinese Trotskyists, Mao and other ckmmunists had written them off as suicidal due to their obstinancy and determination to attack the KMT and Japan at the same time. I recommend reading Lu Xun's letter to Chen Duxiu, Reply to a Letter from the Trotksyites. This shows the sheer distrust of the peasantry the Chen Duxiu had, true to his Trotskyism, and again proven wrong by Mao when the peasantry was made red.

Reply to a Letter from the Trotskyites

Your “theory” is certainly much loftier than that of Mao Zedong; yours is high in the sky, while his is down-to-earth. But admirable as is such loftiness, it will unfortunately be just the thing welcomed by the Japanese aggressors.

^redsails.org

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TranscendentalEmpire

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 settimane fa • •

but prevalent idea that the peasantry would be counter-revolutionary, as they would have more of a petite-bourgeois ideology based on their largely self-driven living conditions.

I guess hindsight 20/20, but I had always figured they were referring to the landed peasants like kulaks or sub-kulaks. Seems incongruous that peasants in poverty would be counterrevolutionary.

Trotsky also rejected that a country itself could be socialist, as he believed internationally the system being capitalist would cause a reversion to capitalism eventually.

Kinda agree with this to an extent.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to TranscendentalEmpire • 2 settimane fa • •

A big part of Marxism is understanding that existing as a given class makes you more conducive to certain ways of thinking. The way we live shapes the way we think, essentially, and the peasantry are generally more individualist than the proletariat. However, without confirming in reality, some took it to mean that the peasantry would oppose socialism if they weren't already proletarianized. It isn't quite as stupid as it sounds.

As for a system reverting to capitalism by existing in a capitalist global economy, that's partially true, but Trots take it to mean that all socialist countries are generally highly flawed to outright bad. The way to build socialism though requires building these countries up and eroding imperialism, like what China is doing, not by endlessly hoping and praying for a western revolution.

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TranscendentalEmpire

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 settimane fa • •

However, without confirming in reality, some took it to mean that the peasantry would oppose socialism if they weren't already proletarianized. It isn't quite as stupid as it sounds.

I can see how someone unfamiliar with the countryside could make the assumption. However, as a person who's lived and worked on a farm it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Farming communities are extremely interdependent on the local community to get just about anything done. No one person or family can work the land by themselves, it really does take a community if you're not a wealthy land holder.

Trots take it to mean that all socialist countries are generally highly flawed to outright bad

Yeah.... He was a messy bitch about a lot of things. Really a mixed bag of conflicting ideas in that little dude.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to TranscendentalEmpire • 2 settimane fa • •

Communalist, not collectivist. Tiny cells of interdependent local groups are different from the large, widespread connections of socialism.

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TranscendentalEmpire

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 settimane fa • •

Right.... But one could say the same about the proletariat pre-revolution.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to TranscendentalEmpire • 2 settimane fa • •

No, proletarian production is more socialized, as is proletarian ideology. It's part of why cities and rural areas have different political views.

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OBJECTION!

in reply to 3yiyo3 • 2 settimane fa • •

Tell me you've never read anything Lenin wrote without telling me:

Trotsky arrived, and this scoundrel at once ganged up with the Right wing […]
What a swine this Trotsky is: Left phrases, and a bloc with the Right.
This is an instance of high-flown phraseology with which Trotsky always justifies opportunism… The phrase-bandying Trotsky has completely lost his bearings on a simple issue.
Trotsky has never yet held a firm opinion on any important question of Marxism. He always contrives to worm his way into the cracks of any given difference of opinion, and desert one side for the other.
Trotsky behaves like a despicable careerist and factionalist of the Ryazanov-and-co type. Either equality on the editorial board, subordination to the central committee and no one’s transfer to Paris except Trotsky’s (the scoundrel, he wants to ‘fix up’ the whole rascally crew of ‘Pravda’ at our expense!) – or a break with this swindler and an exposure of him in the CO. He pays lip-service to the Party and behaves worse than any other of the factionalists.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to 🏴حمید پیام عباسی🏴 • 2 settimane fa • •

Trotsky was both wrong and an asshole. Trotsky’s plan of Permanent Revolution rested on the idea that the peasantry would erode socialism, because he thought they could not be truly aligned with the proletariat. That’s why he wanted to kick off revolution in the west, hoping that would save Russian socialism. This was, of course, proven false, as socialism survived and trying to build up socialism together with the peasantry worked out.

Trotsky then spent much of his time attacking the soviet union, essentially whining due to his loss.

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SpookyBogMonster

in reply to 🏴حمید پیام عباسی🏴 • 2 settimane fa • •

Trotsky's take on the peasantry was wrong af though

HubertManne via Linux

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HubertManne
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distros with isolated programs?

I had a program sorta freeze up my system without apparently using much resources and its something I have seen a lot in windows and it not happening as much in linux but it does happen. That made me wonder if a system that isolated it more would prevent that. So I guess two questions. Im curious about any distros that isolate the non os programs more and also if anyone knows if this actually would stop what I see happening (my theory is maybe it makes some sort of micro ask for resources that bogs down the system but im not really sure why it happens or for sure which program did it.)

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HelloRoot

in reply to HubertManne • 2 settimane fa • •

I think that really depends on why the app made the system hang.

Can you reproduce it consistently? If so, you could try out different forms of isolation, like flatpak, docker, a VM. And there are linux distros focused on each of those, but you can try a solution on whatever distro you're running.

If for some reason your system hangs due to resources (which is the only case I have ever experienced), that can be limited through cgroups and such. The only resource I don't know how to limit is GPU compute.

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RheumatoidArthritis

in reply to HelloRoot • 2 settimane fa • •

If resource usage was low, it could also be an X11 problem solved by a wayland distro

afporritt1001 via DeGoogle Yourself

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afporritt1001
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Why I Dumped YouTube (and Why You Might Want to Too – No More Crap)

Hey Lemmy fam,

After years of wading through endless crap—click‑bait thumbnails, algorithmic rabbit holes, and non‑stop ads—I finally stopped using YouTube. Below are the main reasons I walked away and a handful of privacy‑friendly alternatives that let you keep the content you love without the garbage.

YouTube’s recommendation engine throws endless crap at you, turning a 5‑minute tutorial into a 2‑hour binge you never signed up for.

What I do instead:

Lemmy – I follow specific communities (r/technology, c/firefox,c/degoogle ``) and browse chronologically or by “Hot”. No hidden agenda, just the posts I chose.
RSS feeds – Subscribe to the channels I actually care about via an RSS reader (Feedly, Newsboat, or Lemmy’s built‑in RSS). New videos appear as they’re posted, no surprise junk.

Every view, pause, and hover is logged and sold to advertisers. Even with an ad‑blocker, YouTube still harvests data through its API calls and cookies.

What I do instead:

PeerTube – Decentralized, ad‑free video hosting. Each instance runs its own moderation and privacy policies. You can even self‑host a node if you want full control.

#degoogle

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geneva_convenience

in reply to afporritt1001 • 2 settimane fa • •

Peertube has no content whatsoever. The current best option for privacy is using invidious mirrors.

NightOwl via World News

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NightOwl
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Zelenskyy’s top aide quits after anti-corruption searches of his home

A seemingly indispensable aide until today, Yermak was a former intellectual property lawyer and film producer who knew Zelenskyy in his days as an actor and comedian before helping him be elected as president. Yermak became a foreign policy adviser, then the president’s chief of staff in February 2020.
Rapidly he assumed a central position as Zelenskyy’s gatekeeper in the charge of the president’s office. He was routinely consulted on foreign policy, domestic affairs and appointments. Never far from Zelenskyy’s side, the two were particularly close during the early days of the invasion, when Kyiv was under threat.

Zelenskyy’s top aide quits after anti-corruption searches of his home

Ukrainian president announces departure of Andriy Yermak, who was leading peace talks with US

^{Dan Sabbagh (The Guardian)}

#Worldnews

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Thesilverpig

in reply to NightOwl • 2 settimane fa • •

Corruption in one of the famously most corrupt countries in Europe!? As with most political corruption investigations I'm willing to bet this was a political purge. By whom and for what ends I don't know but I'm sure that'll be clear in due time.

pie via Linux

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pie
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Switch to a Fully free Operating System

As per fsf only those linux distributions are 100% free: Dragora Dyne Guix Hyperbola Parabola PureOS Trisquel Ututo libreCMC ProteanOS Do you agree or no? I see a lot of people that want to switch from windows to a linux distro or a open os. But fro

As per fsf only those linux distributions are 100% free:

Dragora
Dyne
Guix
Hyperbola
Parabola
PureOS
Trisquel
Ututo
libreCMC
ProteanOS

Do you agree or no?

I see a lot of people that want to switch from windows to a linux distro or a open os. But from what i see they tend to migrate to another black boxed/closed os.

What is a trully free os that doesnt included any closed code/binary blobs/closed drivers etc.

Just 100% free open code, no traps.

What are the options and what should one go with if they want fully free os that rejects any closed code?

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Sinfaen

in reply to pie • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Hard disagree. Only people that are already in linux-land should even think or talk about this, and only after they're aware of what they depend on and whether they can even do that in the first place.

Main reason: biggest thing holding Linux back is user-base. The more users there are, the more that companies will actually care about supporting the OS. In the meantime, newbies to Linux need an OS that is as hassle free as possible that supports what they need. Windows and macOS have their downsides, but you can't disagree that they work out of the box. You only get a few chances to get someone to even think about switching ecosystems, and going to a straight free distro is another huge hurdle on top of that. Most closed source applications only get tested on debian/rhel based distros anyway, I wouldn't be able to do my my day job on a distro outside of that without some serious headache.

There are many closed source components that don't have equivalent open source alternatives, and features are a thing that will snag many people. Most people aren't technical.

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Horse {they/them}

in reply to pie • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

no, i like my computer to work

url via Privacy

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url
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If I keep js disabled and then use extension will it still be a fingerprinting issue?

I mean for fingerprinting protections I go minimal with extensions. I only have Ublock origin. I want to keep dark reader but for fingerprinting issue I’m not doing it. So if I keep js disabled with Ublock origin (I’m doing it for a while now) and then in

I mean for fingerprinting protections I go minimal with extensions. I only have Ublock origin. I want to keep dark reader but for fingerprinting issue I'm not doing it.
So if I keep js disabled with Ublock origin (I'm doing it for a while now) and then install dark reader will websites still be able to tell that I have dark reader installed?

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RodgeGrabTheCat 🇨🇦🏴‍☠️

in reply to url • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

This could be a fingerprint as very few people keep JS off and you might stand out.

On the other hand, the browser gives out very little information without JS active. Turn off JS and test your browser on deviceinfo, amiunique, etc and see how many entries are "unknown".

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FriendBesto

in reply to RodgeGrabTheCat 🇨🇦🏴‍☠️ • 2 settimane fa • •

True, but JS off also makes the web so Mich faster and in many cases less annoying. More so if uBlock is used on Medium mode.

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RodgeGrabTheCat 🇨🇦🏴‍☠️

in reply to FriendBesto • 2 settimane fa • •

I can not disagree with any of your points.

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anamethatisnt

in reply to url • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

I played around with coveryourtracks.eff.org/ and realized that I'm quite unique whether I allow js or not. Many trackers get blocked by the absence of js though so that would hamper them somewhat.
My Sony phone with 21:9 screen ensures I'm uncommon compared to most.

My goal isn't to be untrackable but to block the ads they try to shove in your face as step 2.

Cover Your Tracks

See how trackers view your browser

^{coveryourtracks.eff.org}

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birdwing

in reply to anamethatisnt • 2 settimane fa • •

Another thing, I'm wondering. What if it's not so much being un-unique as much the sum of the fingerprintable things looking not strange compared to others. Chances are that a lot of people also use some ad blockers, some common hardwares, etc.

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SteakSneak

in reply to anamethatisnt • 2 settimane fa • •

If it makes you feel better I have a Sony with 21:9 too. So there's at least two of us😅

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FriendBesto

in reply to anamethatisnt • 2 settimane fa • •

I use IronFox and I do pass that test. Only browser that I use that does. FF and Cromite do not.

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anamethatisnt

in reply to FriendBesto • 2 settimane fa • •

Interesting, it seems that while IronFox has the protections activated by default (and with some changes) you can also activate most of them on Firefox.
github.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox…

Ironfox Devs themselves say that the only browser that can truly protect you against fingerprinting is the Tor Browser.
github.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox…

Do you feel IronFox breaks many sites for you?

IronFox/docs/Features.md at dev · ironfox-oss/IronFox

Private, secure, user first web browser for Android. This is a read-only mirror of https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox. - ironfox-oss/IronFox

^GitHub

King via World News

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King
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Yermak Resigns After Ukrainian Anti-Graft Investigators Launch Surprise Search Of His Office

Andriy Yermak, the influential chief of staff of Ukraine's President, has resigned hours after the country's National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) conducted searches in his office.

Yermak Resigns After Ukrainian Anti-Graft Investigators Launch Surprise Search Of His Office

Ukraine's National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) are conducting searches in the office of the presidential chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, NABU said in a statement on November 28.

^{RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service (RFE/RL)}

#Worldnews

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emotional_soup_88 via Privacy

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emotional_soup_88
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Possible to avoid Google's future open source ban on Android devices?

If I am already using a rooted but proprietary smartphone (Samsung Galaxy S23), downloading my apps from other sources than Google Play, how would Google be able to control what I do with it? If necessary, I could just stay on my current OS build as well. All in all, while politically and philosophically, Google's new policy is bad, I don't feel threatened by it with my current understand of the situation and technology...

Google cracks down! APKs, ROMs, and Emulators banned — is Android freedom over?

Google is implementing a significant policy shift, banning unverified APKs, ROMs, and certain emulators on certified Android devices starting in 2026.

^{Muskan Singh (Economic Times)}

#privacy

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circuscritic

in reply to emotional_soup_88 • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

They reversed course, so it's not an immediate issue.

But to answer your question, they would have provided an OS update to only allows app installations from verified developers, no matter the source.

To get verified developers have to submit identification to Google and go through a Google process.

So it wouldn't matter if the install source was a third-party repo, or Google Play, the system would not have installed any applications not signed by a Google authorized certificate.

That becomes very problematic because it gives Google the ability to restrict applications outside of the Google Play Store ecosystem.

They were copying Apple's playbook from the EU wherein Apple was legally mandated to allow third-party app stores, and in response Apple required all apps to be signed by an Apple verified developer certificate, no matter the repo.

And wouldn't you know it, Apple either revoked or would not provide certificates to developers of apps Apple didn't like, such as BitTorrent clients.

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INeedMana

in reply to circuscritic • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

They reversed course, so it’s not an immediate issue.

I'm not convinced yet

Some article as I can't find my Xitter password to see the source

designed an "advanced flow" for installing unverified apps. This new system is specifically intended for developers and power users who have a higher risk tolerance and want the ability to download unverified apps.
It is not a casual toggle. The advanced flow is built to resist exploitation. The company emphasizes that the flow is designed to resist coercion, ensuring users aren't tricked into bypassing safety checks under pressure from scammers. Social engineering often walks victims through dismissing every warning on screen, so Google is adding friction that fights back.

That can very well mean we'll be compiling everything by hand and sending it via USB app by app

Google Keeps Android Sideloading for Power Users in 2026

Reviewed by: Jame Jimenez When you first heard Google was planning to crack down on Android's sideloading capabilities, you might have felt that familiar...

^{Gadget Hacks}

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circuscritic

in reply to INeedMana • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

I don't necessarily disagree, but the fact they walked back the original policy because it was so unpopular leads me to believe they are trying to save face by implementing a PITA way of enabling unknown sources, such as through ADB.

The reason why I suspect that is because even with the original policy change, they were still going to allow unsigned apps to be installed via ADB.

But I guess we'll just have to wait and find out.

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INeedMana

in reply to circuscritic • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

I think they got afraid such strict policy would put wind in the sails of Linux Phone initiatives

But I might be jaded

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WhyJiffie

in reply to INeedMana • 2 settimane fa • •

I don't think so, shareholder driven companies don't think long term

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bl4kers

in reply to circuscritic • 2 settimane fa • •

I'd argue it's already a small minority of users. Any change is very likely to be negative

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WhyJiffie

in reply to INeedMana • 2 settimane fa • •

That can very well mean we'll be compiling everything by hand and sending it via USB app by app

I think USB/ADB installation would have been allowed in their plans even before they reversed course

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emotional_soup_88

in reply to circuscritic • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Right, then I'll just stay on my current build, being careful not to flash an OS update 😈

But in all seriousness, couldn't one manage without OS updates - relying on only proper cyber hygiene and opsec - until a more viable solution comes up? 🤔

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Sir_Kevin

in reply to emotional_soup_88 • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

couldn't one manage without OS updates - relying on only proper cyber hygiene and opsec - until a more viable solution comes up?

That's been my plan. I just replaced all my android devices with new (to me) devices which are all unlocked, flashed/degoogled and rooted.

I should be good for 5+ years. Hopefully by then the community has come up with a solution to whatever bullshit google has done.

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INeedMana

in reply to emotional_soup_88 • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

From what has been explained to me in some other posts, the issue is that most probably this will land on AOSP level from which all de-Googled androids fork. And with Linux phones not quite ready yet (I'm observing liberux.net/ though) that leaves us at their mercy

Liberux – Privacy · Security · Freedom

^liberux.net

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Special Wall

in reply to INeedMana • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

De-Googled forks of Android would have just reversed that limitation

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INeedMana

in reply to Special Wall • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

I'm guessing that maintaining such forks would be prohibitive. Especially since they do have resources to play cat and mice

But I don't really know much about Android code, I'm just relying what I've heard

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Mark with a Z

in reply to Special Wall • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Reversing malicious changes is an extra burden. Google has been slowly making everything worse for years and the forks haven't been able to do much about it.

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emotional_soup_88

in reply to INeedMana • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

LOL AdAway blocked liberux.net wtf😂 but thanks! The specs are surprisingly good too! 😮

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MasterBlaster

in reply to INeedMana • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Looks nice, but I tried this sort of thing with the FXTec Pro, and never received it. After 4 years, they announced the last ones going out, and they apparently "lost" mine. Contacted them and their response was equivalent to a shrug. Next time I buy a product, it's going to be verifiably on sale publicly.

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INeedMana

in reply to MasterBlaster • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

It's not crowd-funded anymore mastodon.social/@Liberux/11561…

Liberux

2025-11-26 10:25:51

Great News, Liberux Community! 🎉
1️⃣ The Liberux NEXX is moving forward with new self-funding. We listened to your feedback, and the NEXX will come with improvements. We maintain our #opensource commitment and #privacy focus. More details soon!
2️⃣ We are looking for a Developer (Open Source, C++, Wayland, Linux Kernel, ModemManager, D-Bus, PulseAudio) for #liberuxos. If you are passionate about digital freedom, join our team!
➡️ Send your CV to people@liberux.net.
#liberux #Linux #Jobs

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MasterBlaster

in reply to INeedMana • 2 settimane fa • •

Hmmm. I'll take a closer look.

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Zak

in reply to emotional_soup_88 • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Google has partly backed away from this plan, and it was only announced for "certified" Android devices, which yours isn't after rooting.

It does affect you indirectly though. If open source on Android gets harder, fewer people will do it.

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Villainess via Linux

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Villainess
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Average Debian system update experience:

No I'm not using Kali for "hacking" I'm experimenting if I can play games on it and I guess my little experiment failed here, I never had a smooth experience with Debian before it always break itself when doing a system updates.

#linux

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pastermil

in reply to Villainess • 2 settimane fa • •

> posts something bad about debian

> takes screenshot from kali linux

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phaedrus

in reply to pastermil • 2 settimane fa • •

cat looking inside

FinishedTFY

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floquant

in reply to Villainess • 2 settimane fa • •

No I'm not using Kali for "hacking" I'm experimenting if I can play games on it

Sorry but.. why on earth would you do that? Kali is a specialized distro, it's not made for day to day desktop use, much less for gaming on it. If you want to game on Linux, pick either a generic or gaming-oriented distro, and use Kali in a VM or dualboot.

GlenRambo via Privacy

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GlenRambo
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Using a custom domain with two seprate email accounts.

I purchased a custom domain to use with mailbox.org.

The MX records are setup and basic tests are working. I'm getting myname@customdomain.com showing up in my mailbox.org account.

But I got confused with setting up a family member with theirname@customdomain.com

Do they need to pay for a plan too?

There not worried about the privacy they just want the custom email address. Is there anyway to do this for free or cheaper, without self hosting email?

Side question. I've been paying for anonaddy to hide my normal @outlook account. Are there any benefits in keeping anonaddy to send emails to my custom domain. Instead of just using a catchall, or pre-configuring some aliases?

The only benifits I see are

Anonaddy can make accounts on the fly
On The Fly accounts might be easier to disable than
things sent to a catchall
Anonaddy dosnt reveal your domain (maybe this is the big draw card?)

Thanks.

#privacy

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GlenRambo

in reply to trailee • 2 settimane fa • •

Is this via a rule, as in the email hits the inbox then gets sent on.

Or is it a setting when you configure the alias.

Where the email goes to fastmail then gets sent onto gmail, are you limited to replying from the gmail?

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trailee

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Each alias has a configured delivery destination. Aliases that only point externally never reach the main account inbox.

You are limited to replying from the gmail unless you jump through more advanced hoops. Those include telling gmail in its settings that it can “Send mail as” something else, and also giving gmail authorization to send mail for your domain by adding them into your SPF and DKIM records. Those are more complicated than I want to describe here, and it will be complicated to merge both mailbox.org and gmail into them, so if you don’t already know about them, let’s just say yes, you can only reply as the gmail user.

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West Bank: Israeli troops kill two Palestinians after they appear to surrender

The Palestinian Authority says the killings are a "war crime", while an Israeli minister backed the soldiers.

^{Jon Donnison (BBC News)}

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khannie

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Jesus. That video is grim. Straight up executions. 🙁

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mrdown

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Is the words "appear to" necessary?

Babalugats via Privacy

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Digital Omnibus: How Big Tech Lobbying Is Gutting the GDPR

Cross posted from: feddit.uk/post/40232992

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Digital Omnibus: How Big Tech Lobbying Is Gutting the GDPR
Last week we at EFRI wrote about the Digital Omnibus leak and warned that the European Commission was preparing a stealth attack on the GDPR

Since then, two things have happened:

The Commission has now officially published its Digital Omnibus proposal.

noyb (Max Schrems’ organisation) has released a detailed legal analysis and new campaigning material that confirms our worst fears: this is not harmless “simplification”, it is a deregulation package that cuts into the core of the GDPR and ePrivacy.

What noyb has now put on the table

On 19 November 2025, noyb published a new piece with the blunt headline: “Digital Omnibus: EU Commission wants to wreck core GDPR principles”

Here’s a focused summary of the four core points from noyb’s announcement, in plain language:

New GDPR loophole via “pseudonyms” and IDs

The Commission wants to narrow the definition of “personal data” so that much data under pseudonyms or random IDs (ad-tech, data brokers, etc.) might no longer fall under the GDPR.

This would mean a shift from an objective test (“can a person be identified, directly or indirectly?”) to a subjective test (“does this company currently want or claim to be able to identify someone?”).

Therefore, whether the GDPR applies would depend on what a company says about its own capabilities and intentions.

Different companies handling the same dataset could fall inside or outside the GDPR.

For users and authorities, it becomes almost impossible to know ex ante whether the GDPR applies – endless arguments over a company’s “true intentions”.

Schrems’ analogy: it’s like a gun law that only applies if the gun owner admits he can handle the gun and intends to shoot – obviously absurd as a regulatory concept.

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Digital Omnibus: How Big Tech Lobbying Is Gutting the GDPR
Last week we at EFRI wrote about the Digital Omnibus leak and warned that the European Commission was preparing a stealth attack on the GDPR

Since then, two things have happened:

The Commission has now officially published its Digital Omnibus proposal.

What noyb has now put on the table
On 19 November 2025, noyb published a new piece with the blunt headline: “Digital Omnibus: EU Commission wants to wreck core GDPR principles”

Here’s a focused summary of the four core points from noyb’s announcement, in plain language:

New GDPR loophole via “pseudonyms” and IDs
The Commission wants to narrow the definition of “personal data” so that much data under pseudonyms or random IDs (ad-tech, data brokers, etc.) might no longer fall under the GDPR.

Therefore, whether the GDPR applies would depend on what a company says about its own capabilities and intentions.

Different companies handling the same dataset could fall inside or outside the GDPR.

For users and authorities, it becomes almost impossible to know ex ante whether the GDPR applies – endless arguments over a company’s “true intentions”.

Schrems’ analogy: it’s like a gun law that only applies if the gun owner admits he can handle the gun and intends to shoot – obviously absurd as a regulatory concept.

Weakening ePrivacy protection for data on your device

Today, Article 5(3) ePrivacy protects against remote access to data on your devices (PCs, smartphones, etc.) – based on the Charter right to the confidentiality of communications.

The Commission now wants to add broad “white-listed” exceptions for access to terminal equipment, including “aggregated statistics” and “security purposes”.

Max Schrems finds the wording of the new rule to be extremely permissive and could effectively allow extensive remote scanning or “searches” of user devices,ces as long as they are framed as minimal “security” or “statistics” operations – undermining the current strong protection against device-level snooping.

Opening the door for AI training on EU personal data (Meta, Google, etc.)

Despite clear public resistance (only a tiny minority wants Meta to use their data for AI), the Commission wants to allow Big Tech to train AI on highly personal data, e.g. 15+ years of social-media history.

Schrems’ core argument:

People were told their data is for “connecting” or advertising – now it is fed into opaque AI models, enabling those systems to infer intimate details and manipulate users.

The main beneficiaries are US Big Tech firms building base models from Europeans’ personal data.

The Commission relies on an opt-out approach, but in practice:

Companies often don’t know which specific users’ data are in a training dataset.

Users don’t know which companies are training on their data.

Realistically, people would need to send thousands of opt-outs per year – impossible.

Schrems calls this opt-out a “fig leaf” to cover fundamentally unlawful processing.

On top of training, the proposal would also privilege the “operation” of AI systems as a legal basis – effectively a wildcard: processing that would be illegal under normal GDPR rules becomes legal if it’s done “for AI”. Resulting in an inversion of normal logic: riskier technology (AI) gets lower, not higher, legal standards.

Cutting user rights back to almost zero – driven by German demands

The starting point for this attack on user rights is a debate in Germany about people using GDPR access rights in employment disputes, for example to prove unpaid overtime. The German government chose to label such use as “abuse” and pushed in Brussels for sharp limits on these rights. The Commission has now taken over this line of argument and proposes to restrict the GDPR access right to situations where it is exercised for “data protection purposes” only.

In practice, this would mean that employees could be refused access to their own working-time records in labour disputes. Journalists and researchers could be blocked from using access rights to obtain internal documents and data that are crucial for investigative work. Consumers who want to challenge and correct wrong credit scores in order to obtain better loan conditions could be told that their request is “not a data-protection purpose” and therefore can be rejected.

This approach directly contradicts both CJEU case law and Article 8(2) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights. The Court has repeatedly confirmed that data-subject rights may be exercised for any purpose, including litigation and gathering evidence against a company. As Max Schrems points out, there is no evidence of widespread abuse of GDPR rights by citizens; what we actually see in practice is widespread non-compliance by companies. Cutting back user rights in this situation shifts the balance even further in favour of controllers and demonstrates how detached the Commission has become from the day-to-day reality of users trying to defend themselves.

EFRI’s take: when Big Tech lobbying becomes lawmaking

For EFRI, the message is clear: the Commission has decided that instead of forcing Big Tech and financial intermediaries to finally comply with the GDPR, it is easier to move the goalposts and rewrite the rules in their favour. The result is a quiet but very real redistribution of power – away from citizens, victims, workers and journalists, and towards those who already control the data and the infrastructure. If this package goes through in anything like its current form, it will confirm that well-organised corporate lobbying can systematically erode even the EU’s flagship fundamental-rights legislation. That makes it all the more important for consumer organisations, victim groups and digital-rights advocates to push back – loudly, publicly and with concrete case stories – before the interests of Big Tech are permanently written into EU law.

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19 Linux resources in 11 minutes | Bread on Penguins [List in comments]

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1:06 cmd gems - commandlinefu.com/commands/bro…

1:30 tldp - tldp.org/index.html

2:05 wikis - wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Main_Page… wiki.archlinux.org/title/Main_… wiki.debian.org/

2:38 cmdline weather - curl wttr.in

3:22 sh bible - github.com/dylanaraps/pure-sh-… github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bas…

4:10 shellcheck - shellcheck.net/

4:44 uefi vs bios - rodsbooks.com/gdisk/booting.ht…

5:47 performance guides - brendangregg.com/linuxperf.htm…

6:16 tldr, manual pages - github.com/tealdeer-rs/tealdee…

7:44 cmdline cheatsheets - curl cheat.sh

8:31 fhs - refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/F…

8:58 otw games - overthewire.org/

9:38 awesome lists - github.com/sindresorhus/awesom…

10:40 how to learn.

GitHub - dylanaraps/pure-sh-bible: 📖 A collection of pure POSIX sh alternatives to external processes.

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chasteinsect via Linux

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Why use a terminal pdf viewer?

I've been using Firefox to view PDFs and it works fine. Recently though I wanted to try something more minimal with vim keybindings. Found two options: Zathura and tdf (terminal pdf viewer).

What I'm curious about is why someone would choose a TUI pdf viewer over a regular one (like Zathura). What are the actual advantages people find in practice. tdf mentions being fast but I wonder if that's something you'd actually notice day to day?

Also I remember seeing screenshots where PDFs looked transparent or matched the terminal colors. Is that actually a feature of some of these viewers ? Maybe someone uses one here?

Tdf seems relatively popular with 1.4k github stars.

GitHub - itsjunetime/tdf: A tui-based PDF viewer

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kittenroar

in reply to chasteinsect • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Huh, I mostly use apvlv and mupdf. They are command line binaries but they have a gui; I don't really see a point in looking at a PDF with something other than a gui.

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Thorned_Rose via Linux

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I just wanted to compare FOSS Linux budgeting software

Instead YouTube gives me literally nothing but AI spam. :/

I scrolled down a bit more and got this:
i.postimg.cc/fJcPhG45/Screensh…

Scrolled down some more and this:
i.postimg.cc/v1khnhRp/Screensh…

I kept scrolling until I ran out of relevant results. Not a single video was legit. I don't think I've ever seen so much AI slop in one search term and by the gods there is a lot of crap on YouTube.

Anyone have a good comparison video? I'm just wanting a decent comparison of Actual, Firefly III and possibly HomeBank. Feel free to also give me your 2 cents on whatever you use 😀

#linux

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iAmTheTot

in reply to Thorned_Rose • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

I don't have a video for you but I've been using Actual for over a year and really like it. I recommend it. Caveat, I very actively interact with my budget (inputting things manually) and cannot speak for it's account linking features.

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_spiffy

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We just switched from YNAB to actual and my wife really likes it. I host it locally with tailscale so she can access it from her phone anywhere.

silence7 via politics

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Supreme Court Conservatives Reinstate Texas’ Gerrymandered House Maps

The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 order, has put on hold a lower court ruling that blocked Texas’ aggressive gerrymander, a maneuver the state legislature had carried…

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UNY0N via Memes

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Math is Hard

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wolfinthewoods

in reply to UNY0N • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

50% of the time I pass everytime

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nastyyboi

in reply to UNY0N • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

You mathn't.

Sahwa via Technology

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Linux usage hits an all-time high in Steam Hardware Survey—and AMD processors continue their march against Intel

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/linux-usage-hits-an-all-time-high-in-steam-hardware-survey-and-amd-processors-continue-their-march-against-intel

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NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ

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"EndeavourOS 0.07%"

Let's goooo! There are dozens of us!!

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boomzilla

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Recently tried CachyOS on my HTPC. Couldn't get Sunshine to run. It looked beautiful though and the docs seemed really in-depth. Endeavour (thanks to Arch, I know) is just so stable and fast. Just the right amount of pre-installed stuff like reflector, yay, the firewall-config app for firewalld with sane defaults, nice BTRFS subvolume layout, correct NVidia drivers. Would be nice to have Limine (for BTRFS snapshots) as an option besides SystemD boot and Grub in Calamares but I installed it in addition to SystemD boot. Gaming works tremendously good. Everything else too.

I really can't recall the last time an update went wrong. On both of my machines (one Intel, one AMD, both NVidia).

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LievitoPadre

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You need to install CUDA first, if you have a Nvidia card.
Limine is already an option when you install the os.

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boomzilla

in reply to LievitoPadre • 1 settimana fa • •

Thanks. Seems you're correct and Sunshine profits from CUDA when using this NVFBC but it doesn't seem to explicitly depend on it to run. I tried it pretty soon after installing EOS and can't imagine having installed CUDA so early. Last time I explicitly did it was for Ollama.

I just looked on that EOS machine on which Sunshine worked right from the start and no CUDA package is installed but nevertheless nvidia-smi shows CUDA Version 13. This seems to be because the nvidia driver brings the CUDA runtime with it which differs from the big CUDA toolkit. I'll try CachyOS again when I eventually buy an AMD GPU.

I think you meant Cachy when you pointed out Limine is an option while doing automatic partitioning. And yes this worked very good. I meant that Endeavour doesn't offer it at that point in install.

Have a nice week.

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LievitoPadre

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You're welcome.
I knew about CUDA because I hit my head with it with manjaro. However, I vaguely remember that when I tried in Cachy, it asked for the dependency as well. I think I tried to install with octopi tool though.

Yes I meant Cachy for limine, I didn't know Endeavour didn't do it too.

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youmaynotknow

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I'm not much of a gamer, not because I don't like to game, but because I'm old and have little time for it. That has made Fedora Workstation my preferred desktop/laptop OS for the last 6 years or so. Maybe that's the reason why I just can't understand why people keep putting up with Microsoft's bullshit.

I have tried Endeavour about 4 times over the years, but in trying to 'make it my own' I always end up breaking it badly and come back to Fedora for a stable few months before going on a distro-hop riot all over again. Linux certainly is a lovely drug to be hooked on 😁

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randomaside

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I feel you. Ive been going through this loop over and pver again. Ive landed on the fedora based Universal Blue for this reason. Bluefin for my desktop and bazzite for my gaming PCs. Sometimes you just want your system to be stable and get out of your way and i really appreciate thay about fedora.

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youmaynotknow

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That was the one Distro that appealed to my wife enough for her to allow me to switch her Windows in her work PC. Now she hates to have to go to her windows laptop to do some taxes shit in our country every month because they only allow excel.

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Spice Hoarder

in reply to youmaynotknow • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

Doesn't one of the office alternatives do .xlsx? Or at least use the web version of excel?

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youmaynotknow

in reply to Spice Hoarder • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

Only Office and LibreOffice do, I but the macros used by our tax authority completely break there, so she's left with the excel option alone.

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Spice Hoarder

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Go figure, but the web version of excel should work.

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youmaynotknow

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According to her, it didn't work. I have no idea what macros those are, and in all honesty, I don't care either, as I don't have to do it (I know that's a douche comment, but here we are). As long as I'm not the one hack g to deal with that crap, I'm not even asking. At the end of the day, that's all she uses that laptop for, the rest is either company hosted or self hosted and she can use it all on her phone or tablet when she's out and about or in her PC when I get home the office.

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silt_haddock

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I’ve been putting off switching because of everything I have setup for work, but next week I have a new laptop arriving and I’ll be wiping the pre-installed windows and chucking probably fedora on it.

Once I have that first one done, I’ll be able to start moving all my others. I have a bunch of Hyper-V VMs that I need to migrate which has been the main cause of my hesitation.

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Jankatarch

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Check fan speed volume before and after linux to see how many background AI scrapers were removed lmao.

Babalugats via Privacy

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Reality Check: EU Council Chat Control Vote is Not a Retreat, But a Green Light for Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance and the End of Right to Communicate Anonymously

Cross posted from: feddit.uk/post/40205739

I'm posting this to hopefully stop the posts that keep appearing, suggesting that progress has been made to defeat chat control.
That's not correct.

The article:

Contrary to headlines suggesting the EU has “backed away” from Chat Control, the negotiating mandate endorsed today by EU ambassadors in a close split vote paves the way for a permanent infrastructure of mass surveillance. Patrick Breyer, digital freedom fighter and expert on the file, warns journalists and the public not to be deceived by the label “voluntary.”

While the Council removed the obligation for scanning, the agreed text creates a toxic legal framework that incentivizes US tech giants to scan private communications indiscriminately, introduces mandatory age checks for all internet users, and threatens to exclude teenagers from digital life.

“The headlines are misleading: Chat Control is not dead, it is just being privatized,” warns Patrick Breyer. **“What the Council endorsed today is a Trojan Horse. By cementing ‘voluntary’ mass scanning, they are legitimizing the warrantless, error-prone mass surveillance of millions of Europeans by US corporations, while simultaneously killing online anonymity through the backdoor of age verification.”
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Continue reading here - patrick-breyer.de/en/reality-c…

Reality Check: EU Council Chat Control Vote is Not a Retreat, But a Green Light for Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance and the End of Right to Communicate Anonymously

Contrary to headlines suggesting the EU has "backed away" from Chat Control, the negotiating mandate endorsed today by EU ambassadors in a close split vote paves the way for a permanent infrastructure of mass surveillance.

^{Patrick Breyer}

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TropicalDingdong

in reply to Babalugats • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Who is promoting this and why is it constantly coming back?

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Babalugats

in reply to TropicalDingdong • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

The timeline is here

Currently Denmark pushing it, they hold the EU presidency at the minute. Their minister for justice - Peter Hummelgaard is responsible for the big push and the wording. Specifically trying to pull the wool over the general public.
Ireland are next (they take over in January)
And the minister for justice in Ireland (Jim O'Callaghan) is also in favour of it.

U.N. right to privacy

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights - Right to privacy in the digital age

U.N. - Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Data privacy: A right to read without being read | United Nations

According to the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, libraries play a vital role as the privacy rights of their users are under increasing threat.

^{United Nations}

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TropicalDingdong

in reply to Babalugats • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Thank you.

But what groups are advocating for this? There is clearly a significant campaign behind this. It doesn't seem at all grassroots.

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Babalugats

in reply to TropicalDingdong • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

At a guess, I'd imagine big tech companies are lobbying as most of the information that they use comes from data gathering. Using data directly from texts etc. Leaves them open to court cases.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The options are limitless to the politicians regarding money making opportunities pushing x,y and z through once our private correspondence and devices are being scanned.

For example, in years to come insurance companies could refuse to pay out on all sorts of claims using that data.
Doctor may have recommended you walk a mile a day and change your diet.
You don't do it, or just miss a day, your life insurance policy is voided.
Car crash not your fault, no payout because you missed something else etc.

I couldn't begin to to guess the amount of ways that this information could be used, but it's a complete u-turn from what the EU was saying only a few years ago

gdpr.eu/what-is-gdpr/

They still recommend using signal - but only internally.

Which in itself is bizarre.

And exempting themselves from being scanned is just showing what they really think.

What is GDPR, the EU’s new data protection law? - GDPR.eu

What is the GDPR? Europe’s new data privacy and security law includes hundreds of pages’ worth of new requirements for organizations around the world. This GDPR overview will help...

^{Ben Wolford (GDPR.eu)}

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TropicalDingdong

in reply to Babalugats • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

I'm trying to learn more about EU politics, and when something like this won't die after being beat down several times, in the US it's almost always some industry lobbying organization.

And a problem we have globally, is that there isn't an organized counter movement in the opposite direction (that privacy is a human right, that this isn't a path to security, that states need to be restrained and restricted in their tendencies towards authoritarianism).

Without that countermovement, it's almost inevitable something like this will pass as the lobbying organization can long outlive the current generation of activists or politicians who see the problems with something like chat control.

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Babalugats

in reply to TropicalDingdong • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11…

Yes, that's the same with many things. No counter movement.

We will see how transparent it all is

transparency.eu/briefing-lobby…

Briefing: lobby transparency in the EU - Transparency International EU

^{Raphaël Kergueno (Transparency International EU)}

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Batmorous

in reply to Babalugats • 2 settimane fa • •

We have to be the ones that continue building the movement. Plenty of us already are but with each of us active, and getting others active-connected it will help so much. We all can way more in a healthy way get things done. Let's not make it easy for them at all.

Getting people to switch to Matrix, & Stoat for real-time collaboration.

Piefed for overview and more organization by having people doing.

Pixelfed, & Loops by Pixelfed for Live-Streaming Incidents.

Also, to stop them infecting people's minds with their virus

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Babalugats

in reply to Batmorous • 2 settimane fa • •

I agree. A proper counter movement is needed.

Big American corporations are heavily lobbying EU council and governments.
Transparency is not working, EU council are rolling back on GDPR, massively eroding our privacy, which is irreversible.

With the likes of Trump in charge the US are not trustworthy with any data. The data that they already take illegally is too much.

The UDHR article 12 is supposed to protect our privacy.

We need a counter movement big enough to scare the politicians when they start bending to the Big-Tech.
They are not in the least bit worried as things stand now.

Peter Hummelgaard (among others) and his arrogance does not seem even a little concerned about his position.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights | United Nations

A milestone document in the history of human rights, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights set out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected. It has been translated into over 500 languages.

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Batmorous

in reply to Babalugats • 1 settimana fa • •

Thats why everyone needs to be active with us and get more people moving. The more we do the more we win!! They are already scared that's why they try so hard now.

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ell1e

in reply to Babalugats • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

I posted this before, but it doesn’t even seem to be voluntary at all, from what I can tell from the draft:

“Upon that notification, the provider shall, in cooperation with the EU Centre pursuant to Article 50(1a), take the necessary measures to effectively contribute to the development of the relevant technologies to mitigate the risk of child sexual abuse identified on their services. […]”

“In order to prevent and combat online child sexual abuse effectively, providers of hosting services and providers of publicly available interpersonal communications services should take all reasonable measures to mitigate the risk of their services being misused for such abuse […]”

These quotes sound mandatory, not voluntary. And let’s look what these technologies referenced are:

“In order to facilitate the providers’ voluntary activities under Regulation (EU) 2021/1232 compliance with the detection obligations, the EU Centre should make available to providers detection technologies […]”

“The EU Centre should provide reliable information on which activities can reasonably be considered to constitute online child sexual abuse, so as to enable the detection […] Therefore, the EU Centre should generate accurate and reliable indicators,[…] These indicators should allow technologies to detect the dissemination of either the same material (known material) or of different new child sexual abuse material (new material), […]”

Oops, it sounds again like mandatory scanning.

Source: cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/…

The new draft seems to pretend better to look less mandatory, but it still looks mandatory to me. Feel free to correct me if somebody can figure out that I’m wrong.

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Too bad its creator seems to like Trump mstdn.social/@rysiek/114630877…

I prefer deltachat delta.chat/

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If the tech works as it should, that's what I care about the most.

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Looking for a Good Spanish TTS Engine on Manjaro (Offline / Local)

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to find a reliable Spanish text-to-speech (TTS) solution for Manjaro Linux that can read a text file and output a wav audio file or similar. I recently tried using Kokoro‑TTS:

uv tool install kokoro-tts  
wget https://github.com/nazdridoy/kokoro-tts/releases/download/v1.0.0/kokoro-v1.0.onnx  
wget https://github.com/nazdridoy/kokoro-tts/releases/download/v1.0.0/voices-v1.0.bin

But when I ran:

kokoro-tts --help-languages

it only lists languages like en-us, fr-fr, ja, etc.—no Spanish, so it looks like the Spanish voice isn’t included.

What I’m looking for:

An alternative TTS engine that supports Spanish (ideally es_ES)
That runs locally on Manjaro (or Arch-compatible)
Simple to install and use from the command line
Reasonable naturalness (doesn’t have to be super “neural,” but better than very robotic)

Questions:

Which TTS system do you recommend for Spanish on Manjaro?
Which are the simplest to install and use?
Which are the most natural sounding ones?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

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Kokoro claims to have Spanish. Here’s a link to the voices list and flags from their page:

huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-…

VOICES.md · hexgrad/Kokoro-82M at main

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